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• We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the… — Diane Ackerman
• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased… — Spencer Bachus
• We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic… — Elwyn Brooks White
• There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot… — Frederic Bastiat
• Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's… — James Carriger Paine
• Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science… — Charles Lindbergh
• The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal… — Shakira
• I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no… — Samuel Johnson
• The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past… — William J. Clinton
• There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on… — Martin Scorsese
• The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice… — Wendell Berry
• For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious… — George Washington

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