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Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.


Sheherazade Goldsmith

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It's the legacy ...
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my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I'...
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CHARLES E. WILSON More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
TODD AKIN The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I am truly honored to have even been considered as a nominee for such a distinction, much less actua...
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WILLIAM COWPER Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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PIET HEIN I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.
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PIET HEIN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, les...
BRYANT MCGILL Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of sla...
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KEITH ELLISON We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare...
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PATRICK MCGURN European CEOs have to act much more as business politicians ... in the vacuum left over by a world w...
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DONALD SCHNEIDER Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
EDWARD SNOWDEN All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
SHANE CARRUTH After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
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BEN RIVERS Are you a hero, actually?”
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DONNY OSMOND You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in t...
DONNY OSMOND They (the borough) could save as well.
JOANNE VAVREK We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GOTTFRIED That means more clinics are dividing the same pot of money. So there's less money for each clinic ev...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where you taper cheers the vale ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I beli...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without er...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environme...
ZAC GOLDSMITH I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It's always harder to prove what somebody said when it's one person against another.
BARRY GOLDSMITH