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"Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue - a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue - become a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment - buying the hybrid, eating like a locavore - should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
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"People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses."
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"Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself."
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"You should only expect something from your efforts."
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"God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven."
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"So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation."
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"I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met."
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"Joblessness gives you life ownership."
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"You can't control other people's behavior, you can only ever control your own."
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"Christians don't have the moral right to be indifferent."
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"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."
Food
"Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of processed food it produces, another ten calories of fossil fuel energy are burned."
Science
"Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue - a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue - become a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment - buying the hybrid, eating like a locavore - should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."
Responsibility
"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
Writing
"The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world."
Environment
"Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about."
Writing
"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
Food
"Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north."
Power
"It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction."
Culture
"For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history."
History
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