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“From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.”

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Clinton Lee Scott (1887-1985), an individual of unknown profession. His life experience and contributions are limited due to insufficient information. more

“We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.”

Way Needs Important Home Running Together Numbers Support Our Lives Planets Depends Drink Findings Breathe Priorities Way To Live Support Systems

Book:The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

Source: The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

“Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.”

Needs Firsts Stills Stuff Share Products Exhausted Recycling Reuse

Author:Annie Leonard

“Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.”

Mother Teacher Identity Primaries Consumers Shops Farmers

Author:Annie Leonard

“Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.”

Knows Wells Tickets Elephants Circus

Author:Norris Church Mailer

“Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.”

Knows Men Needs Two Real Character Desire Standards Driving Motive Two Things Clue

Author:Robert McCracken

“There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.”

Interest Lows Paid Workers Behalf Mcdonalds Lobbying

Author:Leo Hindery

“What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.”

Real Moments Seems Next Existence Fiction Enemy Gone Nostalgia Constancy Real Ones

Author:David Budbill

“Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.”

Mean Struggle Alive Existentialism

Book:Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

Source: Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

“Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.”

Desire Mass

Author:Sohrab Vossoughi

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