"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.“
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
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"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."
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"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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