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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
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Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
Charles Darwin
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
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The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.
Charles Darwin
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Architecture is crystallized music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Politicians are simply reflections of the public.
Wes Jackson
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We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.
Wes Jackson
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If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
Wes Jackson
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The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.
Wes Jackson
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.
Wes Jackson
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Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
Wes Jackson
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... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.
Wes Jackson
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Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.
Marcello Malpighi
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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
Leonardo da Vinci
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.
Alfred William Howitt
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
Alfred Sturtevant
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Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
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