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The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

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If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

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First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

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In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.

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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

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I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God

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Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

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A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."

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Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

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