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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. .…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction,…
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
— Abdul Kalam
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I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
— Evelyn Ashford
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A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.
— Teju Cole
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Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
— Willie Sutton
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
— Sam Elliott
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Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen…
— Tim Cahill
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At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost…
— Gail Collins
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into…
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I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future…
— Unknown Author
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You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
— Reggie Lee
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To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody…
— Evelyn Keyes
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