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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone b

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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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. – Orison Swett Marden

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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. – E.Knight

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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. – William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

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