"Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."
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"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."
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"While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require."
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"We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do."
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"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."
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"There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts."
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"Man must conquer nature."
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"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."
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"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."
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"We can never have enough of Nature."
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"So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest."
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"The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us."
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"We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment"
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"The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention."
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"A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass."
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"All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated."
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"Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't."
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"I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character."
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"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."
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"hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground."
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