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"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."
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"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity."
"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."
"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."
"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable."
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