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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no mor

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. – Barry Commoner

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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. – Barry Commoner

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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. – Barry Commoner

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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. – Barry Commoner

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Any powerful technology can be abused. – K. Eric Drexler

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I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But weve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California. – Meg Whitman

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Today were focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think its fair to say were not out looking for a large one, but I think its also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never. – Sanjay Kumar

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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. – James Gunn

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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. – Ted Stevens

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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what youve done and more and more refine an existing performance. – Jerry Harrison

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. – Richard Rogers

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