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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. – Albert Einstein

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Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! – Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,

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Environment

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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Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? – Lane Olinghouse

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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. – Herbert Spencer

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I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didnt want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder whos still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out. – Jason Lee

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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. – Richard Bach

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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