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“There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.”

“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”

Men Political Lying Evil Politics Names Individual Grows Struggle Particular Ambition Soil Abundance Suspicion Disrespect Slander Poisonous Morbid Enmity Shameless Nettles Political Struggle

Author:Maxim Gorky

“It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.”

Facts Today Lying Evil Four Century Abundance Thrown Pondering Surplus

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.”

Feelings Lying Imagination Ability Secret Creation Source Abundance Linked Expressing Feelings

Author:Anais Nin

“Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.”

Needs Spirit Lying Higher Letters Experience Slavery Everyday Proof Abundance Affirmation Copying

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism