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“Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.”

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Sam Ewing, born on April 9, 1949, is a renowned baseball player. Known for his exceptional skills and leadership on the field, he has played for several professional baseball teams throughout his career. more

“We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.”

World Way Body Earth Strong Waste Leaving Wounds Ignorant Indifferent Superiority Greedy Bully Careless Foul Coarse

Author:Ian McHarg

“Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.”

Knows Problem Solutions Irony Environmentalism

Book:The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

“Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.”

Giving Whole Giving Up Ocean Gains

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!”

World America Tobacco Greatest Gifts

Author:David Hockney

“There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.”

Ifs Want Turns Fighting Victory Species Conservation Habitat

Author:George Schaller

“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.”

Trying Looks Doe Hard Universe Alive Concerned Hungry Frightened Motivated Identical Staying Alive Albatross

Author:Carl Safina

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”

Humans Children Matter Facts Body Natural Attitude Shame Our Children Guilt Developing Your Children Human Body Matter Of Fact Nudity Being Natural Nudists Shame And Guilt

Author:Lee Salk

“When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.”

People Mind Has Beens Happens Known Opinion Debate Alternatives

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.”

People Failing Notes Library Defense Billions Tiny Evening Historian Fractions

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

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