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"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."
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"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public."

"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."

"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."

"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."

"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."
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"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else."

"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them."

"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."

"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."

"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."

"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."

"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."

"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."
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