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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Business Certain One Thing Thing
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You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Behave Out Problems Talk
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I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Affirm Anything Beyond Could
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Carefully Consider Definition Experience
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Acknowledged Deepest Desire Human
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Eyes Feelings Listen Your
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Civilization Earth Environment Frost
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Conservation Science War
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Aim Biography Discovery History
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Chemicals Nature Science
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Courage Cruelty Expectations Humanity
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no

Chemicals Life Nature
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

Nature Passion Variety Species
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Nature Beauty Strength Earth
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Sense of smell Memories
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Race Nature
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

Cruelty Humanity Nature Peace
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Feel Important Know
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Alone Earth Mystery Science
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Beauty Environment Environmental-justice Inspirational
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Ocean Sea Water
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By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Conformity Culture Empathy Ethics
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If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

Bill-of-rights Forefathers Pollution
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Biology Earth Force Future
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Environmental-ethics Environmentalism Ethics
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For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself,

Beauty Knowledge
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

Cosmos Humanity Life Mankind
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If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out

Activism Chemicals Environment Ignorance
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Curiosity inspirational Knowledge Wonder
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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

Efforts Nature Satisfaction
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

More Must Never Plant
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger Bear Jealousy Lose
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Analogy Dubious Eggs Full
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Affection Altogether Attachment Faults
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Friends Smile Wear Wrinkles
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Accepting Belief Consists Denying
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Anything Christ Doing Faith
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure Man Outside Within
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting Idea Less Life
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Defeat Many Than Victories
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Another Blessed Human Human Soul
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Deeds Determine Much Our
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Apt Conscientious Course Duty
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Giving Know Luxury Must
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