Quote by John Steinbeck
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-c

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. – John Steinbeck

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I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. – William Shakespeare

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Pollution

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so lets not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. – Ronald Reagan

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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. – Rachel Carson

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Pollution

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. – T. DeWitt Talmage

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life. – Socrates

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Simplicity

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. – Bruce Barton

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. – A. Bartlett Giamatti

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