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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."

"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."

"Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it."

"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."

"It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it."
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"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."

"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor."

"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."

"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."

"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."

"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."

"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."

"By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
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