"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
-Charles de Secondat
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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
-Charles de Secondat
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"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
-Charles de Secondat
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
-Charles de Secondat
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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
-Charles de Secondat
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"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."
-Charles de Secondat
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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