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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese Proverb

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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. – Chinese Proverb

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We have met the enemy and he is us. – Walt Kelly, Pogo, April 1970

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How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?… Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. – Anonymous Wintu Woman

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Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. – Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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And perfect happiness? Man, thats a… the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. – Jamie Foxx

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. – William James

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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after. – Joyce Brothers