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  • Barry Commoner Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Kizer Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.
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  • Ben Saunders Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
    Ben Saunders
    British explorer
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  • John Churton Collins Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
    Aphorisms in the English Review
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Arthur Chapman Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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  • Beilby Porteus Envy, eldest born of hell, embru'd Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make which nature never made, And God abhorr'd.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Biz Stone Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax Esteem to virtue is like a cherishing air to plants and flowers, which maketh them blow and prosper.
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    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Bono Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • James Reston Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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