"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."

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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."

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"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."

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"We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship."

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"Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the health of sea level adapted humans, it is clear that all of the manned facilities on top of the 13,796 feet Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii should be removed and the summit restored back to its native environment."

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"Due to poaching and global warming, future generations will not be able to see some animal and plant species given the rate at which they are disappearing from the forests and seas. Both vices are man-made and man must be challenged and confronted on these global issues. Park rangers, armies and nature conservation trusts are still grappling to find lasting solutions " will you join them in this fight?"

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"The general public of the wireless western nations are very tolerant to the radiation poisoning of the next generation of children by their corporate controlled governments."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."

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"Virtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."

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"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

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"We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived."

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