Thomas Schelling quotes
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“Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.”
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“I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.”
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“I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.”
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“I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.”
-- Thomas SchellingSource : "American, Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2005.
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“There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.”
-- Thomas SchellingSource : "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.
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“When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.”
-- Thomas Schelling
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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