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David R. Brower

"We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock."

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"We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock."

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"The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity."

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"I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings."

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"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago."

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"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."

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"In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange."

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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

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"We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock."

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"Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million."
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"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."
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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."
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"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
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"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."
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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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"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
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"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."
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"When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle."
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"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
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