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"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality."
"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."
"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."
"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."
"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 social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
"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."
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