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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic…
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point…
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is…
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.…
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of…
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible…
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in…
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy,…
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
— Seth Godin
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If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But…
— Ben Feldman
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When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the…
— Paul Robeson
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they…
— Bill Gates
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I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of…
— Rob Lowe
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a…
— Baroness Orczy
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I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to…
— Tom Brokaw
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Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe…
— Robert Dallek
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When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If…
— will.i.am
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