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Climate change, not data centers, behind Colorado River drought https://www.byteseu.com/2354670/ #Climate #ClimateChange #ColoradoRiverBasin #ColoradoStateUniversity #DataCenter #GlobalWarming #LakeMead #LakePowell #SouthernNevadaWaterAuthority #UniversityOfColoradoBoulder #WaterLevels

Fix the problem, not the blame.
-- Japanese Proverb

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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
-- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973 Paper)

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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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Tying health insurance to employment is class warfare.
-- Public Citizen (@public_citizen)

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If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle

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What you do thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Relativism greases the skids for illiberalism.
-- Bret Stephens (NYTimes JULY 20, 2017)

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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When we avoid the painful parts of our life we become alienated from the world, others and ourselves -- and as a consequence of our avoidance feel pain, anxiety and depression.
-- Rollo May

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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
-- Rollo May

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