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"Life is filled with endless opportunities. You must search for the opportunities. Seize every opportunity and make it great."
"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."
"The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!"
"Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor."
"The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it."
"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."
"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."
"By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
"The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."
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