It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that … - Al Gore

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The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Al Gore

It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

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Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any. . . people of any religious faith in this country.

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Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.

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She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

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Eugene O'Neill

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

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Bertrand Russell

There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

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Let the music speak for itself.

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