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We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

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The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

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And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years. ↗

— Mark Strong

#bit #children #feel #had #having