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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. ↗

— Ken Thompson

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There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. ↗

— Robin Day

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I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? ↗

— Ken Kesey

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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. ↗

— Jane Rule

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Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us. ↗

— David Suzuki

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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