We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.
- Paul R. Ehrlich
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Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants,... To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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