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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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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,…
— Aristotle
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Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But…
— Ronald Reagan
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We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are…
— Major Owens
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Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me,…
— Rajneesh
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the…
— Hans Blix
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We're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plant-like substance-algae...we could…
— Barack Obama
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When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things…
— Corita Kent
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It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return…
— David Ricardo
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those…
— James Madison
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The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
— Demetri Martin
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Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of…
— Neil Patrick Harris
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