Peer Pressure Quotes

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I
confess to having yielded to these pressures.
Chris Van Allsburg
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take
advantage of this power as an engine for quality.
Mr Berger
Either you change your mind, succumbing to peer pressure and adopting the new memes as your own,
or you struggle with the extremely uncomfortable feeling of being surrounded by people who think
you're crazy or inadequate.
Richard Brodie
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
Dennis Wolfberg
Talk to your children about peer pressure. Explain what a powerful force it can be, and tell them that
you will never accept the excuse that "Everyone did it"!
Tom McMahon

Personal Identity Quotes

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
Richard Grant
Identity is theft of the self
Estee Martin
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What then is personal identity? It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very complex
orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or "soul"
Professor Hartshorne
The seld depends on consciousness, not on substance.
John Locke
The memory criterion tells us which past or future person you are, but not which past or future thing. It
tells us what it takes for one person to persist as a person, but not what it takes for one to persist
without qualification.
Eric Olson

Greenhouse Effect Quotes

It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer.
American Geophysical Union
The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences
on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern
American Geophysical Union
We know the science, we see the threat, and we know the time for action is now
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Our effect on the environment, and in particular on climate change, is large and growing.
Tony Blair

Global Warming Quotes

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound through global warming.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's
great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.
Godfried Danneels
While human-induced global warming is not going to turn present-day Earth into present-day Mars,
global warming is dire enough that our most distinguished scientists recently concluded that as many as
1 million species on the planet could be extinct by 2050 if affairs do not change.
Jay Inslee
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
Bjorn Lomborg

Future of the Internet Quotes

Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
Homer Simpson
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the
invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as
backward
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's
life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
Vinton Cerf
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can
talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a
newspaper or start a magazine, theres just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
Rupert Murdoch

Free Will Quotes

Free will. It's like butterfly wings: once touched, they never get off the ground. No, I only set the stage.
You pull your own strings.
John Milton
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only
him through his reasoning mind to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which
belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological
conditions and found in only one species, us
Daniel Dennett
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by
doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of
the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.
Simon Blackburn

Beauty and Cosmetics Quotes

Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.
John Kirklin
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about
who they are.
Kate Winslet
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and
surgery.
G B Trudeau
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Yoko Ono

Celebrity and Fame Quotes

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to
avoid being recognised.
Fred Allen
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the
weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His
enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Samuel Johnson
I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt Disney
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol

Climate Change Quotes

Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded
D. James Baker
If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try unmitigated climate change
Dr. Richard Gammon
Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children
Peter Ewins
The Kyoto Protocol will delay warming by less than ten years
Bob Watson
We face a challenge in the conversation of democracy that we must be up to in order to save the
climate balance on which our civilisation depends
Al Gore