Quote by Chinese Proverb
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 we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. – Chinese Proverb

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Worry
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Environment
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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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Environment

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. – Rachel Carson

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Environment

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day… – Orison Swett Marden

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Environment

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. – Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970

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Environment

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In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners. – Melinda Gates

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dating

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle

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