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Whereas CO2 is the dominant greenhouse gas overall, it accounts for only 11 percent of agricultural emissions.2 The rest is nitrous oxide (53 percent) and methane (36 percent). Nitrous oxide is 296 times more potent per pound than CO2 as a climate-change gas, and on farms it results mainly from the use of fertilizer but also from cattle pee, especially if there is excessive protein in their diet, and from the burning of biomass and fuel.3 Methane, which is 25 times more potent than CO2, is mainly emitted by cows and sheep when they belch. Some is also emitted from silage. The CO2 comes from machinery but also from the heating of greenhouses to grow crops out of season or in countries that just don't have the right climate. — Mike Berners-Lee

The moral, as Mr. Drawlight explained it, was that if Mr. Norrell hoped to win friends for the cause of modern magic, he must insert a great many more French windows into his house. — Susanna Clarke

I thought my life was over and my heart was broken.

Then I moved to Cambridge. — Louise Gluck

Wishing and trying aren't faith. True faith must be present in order to give substance to your hope. — Andrew Wommack

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.' — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso

You had to admire a guy who wanted to keep you from death. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine. — Winston S. Churchill

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. — Anthony Burgess

From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd. — Agatha Christie

I sauntered to the kitchen, where the lone pot of afternoon coffee had been reduced to thick black syrup. Glad that no one was around to watch, I filled a Styrofoam cup halfway with the molten matter, swished it, and sniffed. Nose of burning rubber, with light tar accents. I topped it off with Sparklett's, then nuked it. Kills the germs. — Denise Hamilton

I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show. — Donna Nelson

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams