"The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil."

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Source : John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”

John B. Cobb

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“Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.”
“With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.”

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“Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.”
“Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.”

Source : U.S. News and World Report, November 11, 1985.
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.”
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
“At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.54, BoD – Books on Demand

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