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We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both… — Aldo Leopold
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people… — Wendell Berry
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. — Annie Dillard
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its… — Bill McKibben
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies… — Albert Camus
If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our… — Barbara Kingsolver
For too many, to work means having less income. — Kim Campbell
I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to… — John McCain
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to… — Susan B. Anthony
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it. — Lucretia Mott
Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should… — Marcus Terentius Varro
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less… — Francois Mauriac
...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion. — Nick Gordon
PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically… — Anthony Bourdain
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no… — Shane Koyczan
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands… — Constantin Stanislavski
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed… — Lewis H. Lapham
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success… — Fran Tarkenton
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are… — Unknown Author

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