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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
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"So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together."
"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
"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."
"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"
"What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'"
"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."
"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."
"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."
"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."
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