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| Children between ages one and three are at the greatest risk [of lead poisoning] because of normal hand-to-mouth activity and the increase in mobility during their second and third years, which make lead hazards more accessible to them. (President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society focus most of their resources on research and treatment rather than on cancer prevention. By talking as if the cure is around the corner and their "war on cancer" is being won, when certain cancer rates—notably breast cancer and lung cancer among women and malignant melanoma—are on the rise, they divert attention from strict regulation of industry and minimizing people's exposure to carcinogens. (H. Patricia Hynes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). (Faith Popcorn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. (Abraham Lincoln) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. (Cree Indian Prophecy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. (Richard Feynman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Those who develop the technologies, who promote them and stand to profit most from them, are not those who suffer their risks. The analysis of technologies is biased toward their use because the technology promoters generally lack the expertise and the incentive to analyze the risks of the technologies for human health and the environment. (H. Patricia Hynes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability. (America’s Living Oceans) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. (Paul Samuelson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. (Erving Goffman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine. (President George W. Bush) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. (Steven Wright) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's amazing how much a few pieces of plastic and paper will sell for if the purchasers are parents or grandparent. (Steven Wright) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. (Lorraine Anderson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn. If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people. (Chinese proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. (Steven Wright) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The end-of-the-fossil-hydrocarbons scenario is not therefore a doom-and-gloom picture painted by pessimistic end-of-the-world prophets, but a view of scarcity in the coming years and decades that must be taken seriously. (Deutsche Bank) | [▲] | [▼] |
| OPEC, over the last 20 years, has not managed to add any additional capacity. So we're in a world today where we're going to need a vast amount of additional energy, and we're utterly dependent on countries that in the past generation have added absolutely no additional capacity (Steven Lee) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!' (Jay Leno) | [▲] | [▼] |