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"One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions."
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"Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates."

"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met."

"Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future."

"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."

"There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people."

"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

"In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles."

"The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire."

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."

"There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world."

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
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