The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese Proverb
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. – Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. – Chinese Proverb
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. – Chinese Proverb
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One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. – Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National La
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907
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