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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th cen

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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