"Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded."

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Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

Sandra Steingraber

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“Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.”
“The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.”
“Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.”
“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.176, The Overlook Press
“David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Since I've been in chiropractic, I've improved by leaps and bounds both mentally and physically.”
“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”
“I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.”

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