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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Environment Living Really Sustain Us
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Best Capable Choose Goal Hard However Know More Path Right Seem Strive
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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
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
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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All Ant Bird One Seen Them Tree When
What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Biology Effort Toward Enough Gratifying Molecule Research
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Ardent Bug Grow Naturalist One Period Thing Up
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Arise Character Deeper Religion Then True Well
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Believe Consequence Dogma Evolution Religious Tend
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ant Complicate Earth Human Most Next Organization Social
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Biodiversity Come Every Humanity Learn Men Preserve Priceless Scrap Understand Use
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Chaos Collapse Environment Insect Vanish

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