Contamination Quotes

• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Air

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Business, Ignorant, Littering

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• Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

  Josh Fox

  Law, Oil, Safety

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

  David Brin

  Enlightenment

  "Glory Season". Book by David Brin, 1993.

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• There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

  Amit Ray

  Incarnation

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.123, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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  The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Thinking, Knives

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• It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

  Bela Kun

  Party, Past, Overlooked

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• I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Children, Blood

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• The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

  Josh Fox

  Betrayal, Air, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Rely Upon, Evil

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.340

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• The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

  James Fallows

  Air, Cities, People

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• I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Might

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• {The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Offering

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• Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Liberty, Alliances

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.425

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• Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.

  Michio Kushi

  Spiritual, Hero, Ddt

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 55), December 1994.

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• I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Night, Forever

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.

  Roger Caillois

  Running, Stress, Reality

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• I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.

  Mario Monti

  Party, Often Is, Knows

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• Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Perception

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• Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Science, Views

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.273, Univ of California Press

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• People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

  Louis Zamperini

  War, Exercise, People

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• I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Angel, Impossible

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• Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

  Rachel Carson

  War, Animal, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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