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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson
• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to… — Patrick Henry
• I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton
• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards
• A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger
• Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution',… — David R. Brower
• Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the… — Arthur C. Clarke
• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren
• Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan
• We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass… — Christopher Hitchens
• Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk
• What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,… — Theodore M. Burton

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