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Dixie Lee Ray

(1914–1994) Marine Biologist

22 quotes in 193 categories

Dixie Lee Ray was a marine biologist, best known for Environmental Overkill.

Quick Facts About Dixie Lee Ray

Born: September 3, 1914
Died: January 2, 1994
Profession: Marine Biologist
Notable works: Environmental Overkill

About Dixie Lee Ray

Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dixie Lee Ray

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Clean

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I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers,…

Committee

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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth…

Defects

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They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being -…

Birth

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It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't…

Age

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It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever -…

Accusation

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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Environmental

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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us…

Behinds

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We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Accepting

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Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Can do

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No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

Radical

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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity…

Activity

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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

Garden

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He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Affects

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The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Chemistry

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I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the…

Comeback

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Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that,…

Air

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The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations.…

Central planning

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Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.

Bits

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I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Common

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There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Deliberate

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It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious…

Able

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