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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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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"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
"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."
Heart
"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
Responsibility
"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
Growth
"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."
Behavior
"The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected."
People
"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
"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
Lie
"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."
Freedom
"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."
Values
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