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"Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run."
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"People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships."

"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."

"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."

"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"

"Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that."

"You have to look closely to see clearly."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."

"In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery."
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