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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."
"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process."
"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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