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“The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.”

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Thomas Friedman is an American journalist known for his in-depth analysis of globalization and international politics. He served as a columnist for The New York Times and won numerous awards for his unique perspective and thorough research. more

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.”

Problem Action Severe

Author:Thomas Friedman

“And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.”

People Religious Mutual Superstitions Indulgence Theological Toleration Rancor

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

“In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.”

Country States Care Pleasure Stronger Wiser Confined Domestic Life

Author:Edward Gibbon

“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.”

Whole Mother College Willing Son Months University Whole Life Obligation Acknowledge Idle Fourteen Renounce Oxford

Author:Edward Gibbon

“It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).”

Religious Inquiry Suspended

Author:Edward Gibbon

“It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.”

Has Beens States Arms Politician Members Exhausted Idleness

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.”

Life Oneself Surrender Live Life Rebellion Painless

Author:Emile Zola

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