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The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.
The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.
... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.
I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.
Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.