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The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. . . . An apology for America's values is never the right course. . . . The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.

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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

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You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.

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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

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The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

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The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

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