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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Burn Cook Destroy Economic Gain Meal Paint Rainforest Renaissance
The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Alone Effort Endeavour Honorable Humanism Imperative Moral Provide Succesful Successful
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Alone Disspaer Humanity Insect Land Life Mist Out Planet Rest Wipe
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Aesthetic Cognitive Even Hold Intellectual Key Nature Satisfaction Spiritual
Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Aim Alone Behave Endure Failure High Honorably Prepare Time
Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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All Can Give Need Persist World You
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Assumption Condition Human Part Relentless Science Test
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write
It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Being Brain Even Human Individual Laboratory Maze Millionth Rat Simple Size Thought Use
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Author Biblical Evolution God Important Miss Most Privy Provision Really Revelation Theology
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Duty Ethic Inoculum Loyalty Mean Military Old School Some Some Way South Spent Time Today: Honor Traditional Upbringing
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Correct Destruction Diversity Genetic Go Habitat Loss Million Natural Now Only Process Species Take Will Year
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly

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