Quotes by Gregg Easterbrook - Page 1

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.
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Christmas
Smile
Earth
Mercy
Stills
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
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Science
Fun
Numbers
Torture
Anything
Confess
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I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
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Sports
Lessons
Thinking
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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
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Espn
Punishment
Fired
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I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
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Smart
Issue
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Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
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Blow
Faces
Inevitably
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Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.
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Grievance
May
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How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?
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Doe
Revenge
Thinking
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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
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Forever
Mistake
Button
Entire World
Sees
Send
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The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.
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Climate
Global Warming
Reason
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I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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Sports
Example
Football
Professional Sports
Thinking
Fundamentally
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I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
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Attacking
Boss
Espn
Publisher
Viewed
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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
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Activate
Appreciate
Identity
Involving
Jewish Identity
Persecution
Thinking
Jewish
Exist
Fears
Stereotypes
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The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.
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Data
Global Warming
Sides
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It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
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Guards
Illustrated
Pictures
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Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
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Money
Certain
Needs
Pursue
Necessarily
Obtain
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For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
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Controversy
Thinker
Ukulele
Writing
Criticized
Deserved
Mainly
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Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
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China
Christian
Identity
Involving
Persecution
Stereotype
Fears
Revived
Stereotypes
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And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.
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Embarrassing
Football
Nfl
Owners
Site
Writing
Damning
Suppose
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I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.
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Majority
Me Remember People
Disney
Element
Operating
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You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
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Diaries
Mind
Pops
Spontaneous
Theory
Would Be
Good World Your
Blog
Good World Mind
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When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption
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Children
Parent
Self
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I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
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Mistakes
Behaved
Dealing
Poorly
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Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.
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Environmental
Focus
Real
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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
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Better Now
Memories
People
Persecution
Powerful
Jewish
Memory
References
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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
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Behave
Evening
Human Beings
Pressure
Ran
Beings
Disappeared
Poorly
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Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.
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Autumn
Paradise
Summer
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Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
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Acting
Controversy
Couple
Espn
Thinking
Criticized
Rush
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Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.
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Environmental
Fuel
World
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Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
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Running
Chasing
Fortitude
Helping Others
Heroic
People
Although
Ball
Help Others
Million
Qualities
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Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
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Running
Bloggers
Embarrassing
Harm
People
Pure
Risk
Posting
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But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
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Coverage
Endless
Live For Today
News
People
Today Life
Everywhere
Life Good Today
Fairly
Bad Thing
Cable
Disasters
Happening
Showing
String
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A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.
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Age
People
Progress
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I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.
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Couple
Fall
Football
Winter
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Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."
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Bangs
Cosmos
Miracle
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Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.
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Grateful
Gratitude
Selfish
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If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.
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Atmosphere
Goal
Mean
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... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.
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Acceptance
Community
Odds
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A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.
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Heart
Inspiration
Past
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