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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is worth more than this day. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Take your eyes off what you lost. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. – Jim Bishop

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. – H. L. Mencken

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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. – Barry Commoner

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