Schéma — Représentation épurée où les contours sont simplifiés, réduits à des formes géométriques élémentaires et où la priorité est donnée à la mise en évidence de quelques informations fondamentales.

Cartes

Croquis

Nord

Sud

IDH : indice de développement humain

PIB: produit intérieur brut

Polycentrisme

Mondialisation

Géopolitique

Projection

Centrage

Aire de civilisation

Développement durable

Empreinte écologique

Indice de performance environnementale (IPE)

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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

To make plans and not make good use of them is like betraying your success helpmate after getting to know him. Make plans, get prepared, but let the work be done.

Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.