"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."

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"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."

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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."

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"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."

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"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."

People, Impression, Being, Information

"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."

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"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."

Society, People, Earth, Problems

"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"

Direction, Problems, Right, Sense

"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

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"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."

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"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."

Effect, Global warming, Will

"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."

Global warming, Now, Saying, Want

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"Precaution is better than cure."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."

Robert Smith, English Musician

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"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."

George Weinberg, American Psychologist

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"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."

Spike Milligan, Irish Comedian

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"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

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"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Cure, Disease, Promise, Suffering

"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."

David Viscott, American Psychologist

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"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."

Robert Graves, Irish Novelist

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