A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. – Orison Swett Marden

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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990

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We are the environment. – Charles Panati

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Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy

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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. – Albert Schweitzer, quoted in James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer

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