Barry Commoner Quotes
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer
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So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
Yani Tseng
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When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.
John Waters
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles Peguy
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner
