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"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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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."

"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."

"In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school."

"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago."

"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."

"We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."

"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
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