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"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."
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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."
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"I've always liked men better than women."
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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
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"Men's vows are women's traitors!"
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."
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"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"
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"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
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"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
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"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
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"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."
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"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."
Education

"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means."
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"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
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"An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion."
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