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"I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure."
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"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."

"A man cannot deserve adventures, he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs."

"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."

"Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. 'Sorry.' He bared his fangs in an apologetic grin. 'We're glad you aren't what's hunting us, but we're no friends of IPCA. And we're all very, very, thirsty.''What, no flirting?' I asked, trying to buy time. 'Aren't you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there--they'd be so disappointed.' I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. 'Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren't suave."

"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"

"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."
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"So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out."


"I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre."


"There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system."


"However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States."


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"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that."


"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
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