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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

Understand Newspaper People Challenge
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

Teenagers Surveys Logos Staggering
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

School Teach Children Basic Skills
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

Perhaps Generate Plastic Society
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The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

Ecologist Lost Money Launched Edition
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

Want Curb Raise Street
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

London North America Half
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To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.

Bored Fully Relationship Me
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There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

Mother People Random Time
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For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'

Me You Ready People
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Flights Preserve Hearthrows Hub
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Movies Visually Powerful Crowd
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Cinema Complete Experience Different
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Measure Quantify Human Pain
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Cities Big Style Same
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

Young Fight Create Immigrant
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Exposure Young Age Realities World
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
Career Advancing Emotional Dating
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confusing Money Period Ability
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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

People Capitalism PC Microsoft
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility Intimacy God Bring
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

Agenda Obligate Dissatisfied Complete
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Political System Right People
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Science Investigates Religion Interprets
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Canada Wonderful Political Faith
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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xpect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.

When Friends Fill Emptiness
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Human Progress Automatic Inevitable
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Creative Darkness Man Destructive
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