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"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
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"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."
Environment
"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
Science
"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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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
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"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
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"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."
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"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."
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"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense."
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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."
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"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
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"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
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"By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches."
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"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."
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