“Few people are wise enough to prefer useful criticism to treacherous praise.”  -La Rochefocauld

 

"Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history." -"Weather historian" Maximiliano Herrera

 

“The greatest fault of perceptiveness is not that it falls short of the truth, but that it goes past it.”  -La Rochefocauld