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And I hope that [the report] will reassure everyone that human influence is having a major impact on the Earth's climate.

Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman in an interview with the BBC

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

Title of an economics research paper.

Although personally I am quite content with the existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement

Winston Churchill, quoted by The Economist in ‘Two man race’

In this do not fail. For such is our pleasure.

King Louis XIII in a letter to Samuel Champlain, quoted in 'Champlain Dream' by David Hackett Fisher

..the financier...who claimed to have found a way to banish risk when in fact they had simply lost track of it

The Economist in 'Crash course'

We buy junk and sell antiques

Slogan of a flea market in Perth, Ontario

Mrs Merkel is likely to stick to her usual television style, of talking soothingly without saying anything

The Economist in 'Dog eats dog'

I have distinct reservations as to how good "the good old days" were.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech to the Canadian parliament.

I have three farms, half my father’s herd, all my mother dowry – including what she has hidden from my father.

Nikolai Gogol in ‘Taras Bulba’

There was a great number of educated and experienced partisans who cherished the noble belief that it was of little consequence where one fought, as long as one did fight, for it was unseemly for a man of mettle not to be in battle

Nikolai Gogol in ‘Taras Bulba’