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- We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches,…
- We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
- I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded…
- I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically…
- If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
- Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
- China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
- Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book…
- Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle