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We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. — Terry Brooks
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major… — Jared Diamond
People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to… — Jodee Blanco
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our… — Dawna Markova
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb
The bars on our cage are of our own making. — Jessie Burton
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and… — Thomas Merton

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