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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then."

Mike Judge, American Producer

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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world."

Gavin MacLeod, American Actor

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"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."

John Otto, American Musician

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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

Men

"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

Friendship

"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

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"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."

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"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

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"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."

People

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."

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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."

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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."

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