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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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We have met the enemy and he is us. – Walt Kelly, Pogo, April 1970

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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. – Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959

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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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I just want to lobby for God. – Billy Graham

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