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David R. Brower

"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."

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"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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Amber Hurdle

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Amber Hurdle

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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Amber Hurdle

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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Amber Hurdle

"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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Amber Hurdle

"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."

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"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
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"Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million."
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"We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock."
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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."
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"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."
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"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
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"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."
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"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."
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"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."
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"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."
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