"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men"

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Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

Gifford Pinchot

#Wise Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.”
“Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.”
“Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.”
“ObamaCare will ultimately destroy valuable jobs.”
“Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.”

Source : Kin Hubbard (1916). “New Sayings by Abe Martin and Velma's Vow: A Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut ...”
“you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.”
“I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me.”
“"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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