"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
-Epicurus
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
-Epicurus
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men."
-Epicurus
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
-Epicurus
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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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