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Dan Zadra
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
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Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207.
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
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Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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Cornelius Tacitus
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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Oscar Fingall O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
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Sir Walter Scott
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
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Sinclair Lewis
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless.
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Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
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Mme. de Sartory
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful joy softens more hearts than tears do.
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