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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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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day… – Orison Swett Marden

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot

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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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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American Proverb

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Anything done in anger can be done better without it. – Dallas Willard

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There is much to dislike about President Obamas approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch. – Thomas Frank

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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? – Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

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