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"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
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"Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth."

"When answers the question on time which is the currency of time."

"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."

"A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness."

"For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need."

"The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded."

"Look for principles and virtues that will help you grow bigger from inside."

"God's passion is to increase and multiply."
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"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."

"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."

"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."

"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"

"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."

"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."

"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."
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