"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Work, First, Machines

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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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"To work is to feel alive."

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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

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"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."

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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."

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"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."

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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."

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"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

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