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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what…
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This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys,…
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It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from…
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
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One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of…
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One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives…
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous…
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I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know…
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and…
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One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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