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Mark Cane

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Mark A. Cane was born on October 20, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, growing up in a borough that has long been home to a dense and varied urban culture. He attended Midwood High School before going on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the education that would underpin his subsequent work in climate science.

Cane built his career as a climatologist and university teacher in the United States. Over the course of that career, his work in the field earned him several honors from scientific institutions: the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award, the Maurice Ewing Medal, and the Vetlesen Prize. Each of these recognitions came from different corners of the scientific community, reflecting broad peer acknowledgment of his contributions to climatology.

The record places Cane's roots firmly in Brooklyn, his academic formation at MIT, and his professional life in the earth sciences. The Vetlesen Prize, the Maurice Ewing Medal, and the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award together represent the formal distinctions attached to his name — concrete markers of a career spent working at the intersection of climate research and university teaching.

Quotes by Mark Cane

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
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You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
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There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
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There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
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A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
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A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
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There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
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There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
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At all times it is better to have a method.
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At all times it is better to have a method.
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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
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You cannot live on other people’s promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
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You cannot live on other people’s promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
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The successful man doesn’t use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
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The successful man doesn’t use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
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