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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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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"The public are not stupid."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"The public seldom forgive twice."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
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"Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies."
Environment

"In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate."
Time

"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
Trust

"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."
Freedom

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
Men

"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
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"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."
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"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."
World

"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."
Education
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