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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. -

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die. – Gil Stern

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gil Stern

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The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. – Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967

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It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? – Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy

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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese Proverb

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. – Giorgio Armani

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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. – Alan Dershowitz

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