James R. Schlesinger Quotes
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Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.
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We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.
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We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
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Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
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The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.
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James R. Schlesinger
- Born: February 15, 1929
- Died: March 27, 2014
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Defense
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