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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
Wrong
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
Chaos
"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity."
Humanity
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
Gain
"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
Astronomy
"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."
Debt
"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."
Life
"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology."
God
"People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive."
People
"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."
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"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."
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Personal Development
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
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Personal Development
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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Personal Development
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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Personal Development
"They taught me different was wrong."
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Personal Development
"I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign."
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Personal Development
"I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place."
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Personal Development
"Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
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Personal Development
"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
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Personal Development
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
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Personal Development
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