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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."
"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone."
"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
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"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."
"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."
"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."
"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view."
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