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• Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

  David Suzuki

  Running, Opportunity, Government

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• Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

  Norman Borlaug

  Animal, Agriculture, People

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• Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.

  Lawrence Wright

  Anxiety, Mind, Aberration

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• I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

  Jens Lekman

  Arms, Lovers

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• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  G. Hannelius

  Cheating, People, Digital

  "Internet Safety Tips for Teens" by G Hannelius, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Yawning, Cells

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• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Age, States, Extremes

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 33,

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• Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Men, Together Again

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Grief, Grieving

  "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)

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• I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Blood, Holes

  "Doubting Clerics : From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". Book by Rosemary Ashton, 1989.

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• It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

  Bill Vaughan

  Travel, Way, Forests

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• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Son, Guy

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• When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Ideas, People

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Competition, Silent

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Exercise, Engineering, Done

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake.

  Pentti Linkola

  Winter, White, Fake

  "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.

  Jose Peralta

  Teacher, New York, Children

  "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" by John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. May 21, 2003.

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• I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

  Alvin C. York

  Fighting, Gun, Machines

  "Understanding the Odyssey: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by Claudia D. Johnson, 2003.

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• You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

  John Amaechi

  Axes, World, Woods

  Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

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• I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

  Terry Francona

  Responsibility, Going Away, Done

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• We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.

  Niall Horan

  Voice, Boards, Lemons

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• Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fog, Should Have, Mind

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• Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.

  James P. Womack

  Inventory, Way, Flow

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• If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, War, Believe

  "HBO Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 31, 2006.

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