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I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

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Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

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I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

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All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

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One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

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