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" The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial. "
Donella Meadows
Evidence
Enough
Person
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" Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. "
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" Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. "
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" Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too. "
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" What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign. "
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" We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars. "
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Mean
Corrupt
Tax
" Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. "
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Zoo
Alone
" We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life. "
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Planet
Life
" In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked. "
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Court
Evidence
" Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park. "
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National Park
Park
" The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes. "
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Debt
World
Wealth
" If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us. "
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Doing
Surprise
End
" There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. "
Donella Meadows
Special
Been
Congress
" Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil. "
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Looking
Dumb
Energy
" You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. "
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You
Fool
Environmental
" I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. "
Donella Meadows
Trying
Jury
Never
" Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future. "
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Only
Future
Present
" The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. "
Donella Meadows
Support
Care
People
" Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one. "
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Earth
Places
Own
" Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. "
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More
Agree
Percent
" The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. "
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Almost
Made
Assessment
" What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us. "
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Democracy
Education
Great
" The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings. "
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Mean
Need
Kind
" You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. "
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Should
Issue
You
" George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman. "
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You
Change
Climate Change
" Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. "
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Great
Revolution
Change
" We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns. "
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New
Legal
Doing
" Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left. "
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Freedom
Wisdom
Humility
" I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes. "
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Amazing
Courage
Society
" Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. "
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News
Again
Listening
" The European nations take climate change very seriously. "
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Take
Climate Change
Change