"The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally."
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"Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning."
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"Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment."
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"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment."
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"With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment."
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"Technology is that which separates us from our environment."
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"Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if you want to have a sound, stable, healthy and prosperous Egypt whether now or in the future."
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"Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment"
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"If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments."
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"We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time."
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"The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings)."
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"Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself."
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"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."
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"As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control."
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"One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself."
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"I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'"
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"We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions."
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"Nature did all things well"
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"Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it."
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"Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment."
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