"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
-David R. Brower
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"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.“
-David R. Brower
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"There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"
-David R. Brower
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"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."
-David R. Brower
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"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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