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In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

David Easton

Animal, Thinking, Air

David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

Robert Anton Wilson

Meaningful, War, People

Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Major Owens

School, Technology, Challenges

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A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

An Na

Focus, Quality, Improvement

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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Ron Chernow

Saving, Saws, Firm

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It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

Lois Gibbs

Children, Work, Moving

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The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.

Lois Gibbs

Health, Lessons To Be Learned, Voice

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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Magnus Carlsen

Father, Player, Chess

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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

Indra Nooyi

Unemployment, Done, Addresses

"Discouraged CEOs Set Bar Low for Obama's Job Speech" by Gennine Kelly, www.cnbc.com. September 6, 2011.

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I feel like I'm witnessing the
systematic destruction of a
people's ability to survive....
Sometimes I sit down to dinner
with people and I realize there
is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill
the people I'm having dinner with

Rachel Corrie

Military, People, Trying

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The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford

Elephants, Mind, Computer

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All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

Wayne LaPierre

Gun, Second Amendment, Voters

"NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Ed O'Brien

Tasks, Band

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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Fredric Jameson

War, Home, Writing

Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

Fabian

Mean, Nerd, Library

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EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

David Talbot

Rising, Incredibles, Projects

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Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

Kelly Jones

Albums, Four, Next

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Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

T. D. Jakes

Cancer, Frustration, People

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Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

Bruce Mau

Design, World, Massive Change

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If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Arthur Scargill

Alternatives, Matter, Investment

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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

Steven Pressfield

Hate, Mean, Love Is

Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.42, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.

Mike McCue

Business, Thinking, Competition

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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Sean O'Casey

Work, People, Giving

Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

Annie Dillard

Believe, Imagination, Judging

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.146, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

Mary Ruefle

Mean, Years, Two

Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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