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The dinosaurs became extinct because they
didn't have a space program. And if we become
extinct because we don't have a space program,
it'll serve us right!
(Larry Niven)
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Are Yle In e MI st
Of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
A Tally of Life Under Threat
The International Union for Conservation of
Nature has evaluated 52,205 species. depicted
here, for their ability to survive. Related Article
Each symbol represents 100 species assessed:
THREATENED
NOT THREATENED
BIRDS
99% of known species assessed
8,601 not threatened
Stark Indicators
Of Extinction Risks
Because most known species of birds,
mammals and amphibians have been
evaluated, scientists are confident about the
percentage of each group that is threatened.
MAMMALS
of known species assessed
3,448 not threatened
AMPHIBIANS
assessed
2,767 not threatened
1,917 th reatened:
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Liberty lies in the hearts
of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can
save it...
While it lies there,
it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
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When they are gone,
when every last life
has been stolen,
how will you
remember
them?
Extinction is forever.
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Tookme a while to realize those
aren't tiny brontosauruses
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EXTINCTION
IS FOREVER
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Critical habitat Can be the most effective
tool for recovering endangered species,
but this designation amounts to an
extinction plan for the red-legged frog.
Despite the fact that habitat destruction
is the main reason for the fro$ decline,
the Bush Administration has excluded
from today's decision much of the areas
necessary for the long-term survival and
recovery of the frog.
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Tookme a while to realize those
aren't tiny brontosauruses
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TRANSILIENCE
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E.L.E. (EXTINCTION
LEVEL EVENT - THE
FINAL WORLD FRONT).
Busta Rhymes
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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"HE WHO REFUSES TO LEARN DESERVES
EXTINCTION."
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"When we lose an animal
species to extinction, we
lose part of our family."
Anthony Dou s Williams — Inside the Divine Patt
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When they are gone,
when every last life
has been stolen,
how will you
remember
them?
EFtinction is forever.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. Votes: 4

Carl Sagan
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Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old. Votes: 4

Nell Newman
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Votes: 4

Samuel Beckett
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Votes: 4

Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. Votes: 4

T. S. Eliot
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. Votes: 4

Wangari Maathai
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Votes: 4

Robert M. Hutchins
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. Votes: 4

Jean Dubuffet
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Votes: 4

Ronald Reagan
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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. Votes: 4

Arnold J. Toynbee
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. Votes: 4

Thomas Huxley
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Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction! Votes: 3

Vadhan
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Extinction is established when people only choose to exist without living Votes: 3

Constance Chuks Friday
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Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. Votes: 3

Bill Gaede
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With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean. Votes: 3

Jonathan Maberry
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War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre Votes: 3

Robert Graves
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This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character. Votes: 3

Charles Darwin
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Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me." Votes: 3

Ibn Ata Allah
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There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid. Votes: 3

Noam Chomsky
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How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished? Votes: 3

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. Votes: 2

Hillel the Elder
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. Votes: 2

Rabbi Hillel
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. Votes: 2

Vernor Vinge
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Votes: 2

Ronald Reagan
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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. Votes: 2

Nick Clooney
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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Votes: 2

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. Votes: 2

Barbara Block
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. Votes: 2

J. G. Ballard
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Votes: 2

Susan Sontag
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. Votes: 2

Oliver Lodge
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. Votes: 2

Oliver Joseph Lodge
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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. Votes: 2

George C. Williams
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. Votes: 2

Lester B. Pearson
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The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. Votes: 2

Li Bingbing
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Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. Votes: 2

Arthur Levitt
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. Votes: 2

Calvin Coolidge
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Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own. Votes: 2

Paul Hawken
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It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. Votes: 2

Brian Perkins
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In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet. Votes: 2

Paul Johnson
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet. Votes: 2

Derrick Jensen
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There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction Votes: 2

John Foster Dulles
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Votes: 2

Woody Allen
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Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. Votes: 2

Werner Herzog
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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event. Votes: 2

Elon Musk
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. Votes: 2

Asa Gray
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At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. Votes: 2

Whittaker Chambers
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We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. Votes: 2

Paul Watson
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The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. Votes: 2

David Suzuki
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans. Votes: 2

Cameron Russell
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The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left. Votes: 2

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.' Votes: 2

Nathan Myhrvold
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Education without execution is extinction Votes: 0

Bo Sanchez
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One in eight plant species face extinction. Votes: 0

David Attenborough
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Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. Votes: 0

Ian Somerhalder
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There is no place in nature for extinction. Votes: 0

Lucretius
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To return to nature is to embrace extinction. Votes: 0

Mark X.
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Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. Votes: 0

Gregory Keyes
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There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. Votes: 0

Karen Russell
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When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. Votes: 0

Darren Shan
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We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. Votes: 0

Wayne Pacelle
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Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. Votes: 0

Samuel Adams
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Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year. Votes: 0

Alan Smith
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There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. Votes: 0

Homer Hulbert
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. Votes: 0

Vladimir Lenin
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Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. Votes: 0

Steve Irwin
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I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. Votes: 0

John Keegan
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The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. Votes: 0

Ian Tattersall
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What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. Votes: 0

Ernest Becker
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But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. Votes: 0

George MacDonald
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce
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Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction. Votes: 0

Richard Ford
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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. Votes: 0

Vladimir Lenin
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0

David Mitchell
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We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. Votes: 0

David Foreman
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We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. Votes: 0

Rob Nixon
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I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. Votes: 0

Marco Pantani
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What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren? Votes: 0

Robert Pyle
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Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living Votes: 0

Constance Chuks Friday
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Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. Votes: 0

Robert T. Bakker
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction. Votes: 0

Jasper Fforde
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If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. Votes: 0

Paul R. Ehrlich
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The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. Votes: 0

Edward Teller
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Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. Votes: 0

Louie Psihoyos
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Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. Votes: 0

David Suzuki
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The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. Votes: 0

Kenneth Lacovara
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Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction. Votes: 0

Justin Broadrick
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The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer
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Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. Votes: 0

Joel Garreau
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Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now. Votes: 0

Jonathan Schell
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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. Votes: 0

Wade Davis
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound
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Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. Votes: 0

Wade Davis
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould
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An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. Votes: 0

Peter Drucker
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What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. Votes: 0

Leonardo DiCaprio
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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops. Votes: 0

Dan Gable
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China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. Votes: 0

Wayne Pacelle
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Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert
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Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton
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... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species? Votes: 0

Brian D. McLaren
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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Fur fashion conjures a strange rapport between humans and beasts; humans pose frequently in fur while their furry cousins often pose for extinction Votes: 0

Martin Dansky
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People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. Votes: 0

Brian Halligan
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. Votes: 0

David Mitchell
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We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago. Votes: 0

Jeff Corwin
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We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action. Votes: 0

Graciela Chichilnisky
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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.] Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin
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All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold
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We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould
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Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike. Votes: 0

Sheryl Crow
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Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. Votes: 0

David Remnick
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Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction. Votes: 0

Jay Severin
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide. Votes: 0

Heston Blumenthal
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The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. Votes: 0

E. O. Wilson
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An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. Votes: 0

Rusty Schweickart
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Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. Votes: 0

Samuel Adams
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No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed. Votes: 0

Thomas Malthus
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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln
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Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us. Votes: 0

Leonard Peltier
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Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world. Votes: 0

Kim Harrison
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller
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If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. Votes: 0

James Hansen
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The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence. Votes: 0

Arnulf Rainer
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Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama
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Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken
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So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics. Votes: 0

Annalee Newitz
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If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction. Votes: 0

James L. Farmer, Jr.
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How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left. Votes: 0

Henry Van Dyke
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If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul. Votes: 0

Lewis Mumford
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I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators. Votes: 0

Lisa Randall
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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. Votes: 0

Ernst Mayr
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction. Votes: 0

Nancy Pearcey
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson
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I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down. Votes: 0

Peter Diamandis
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As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development. Votes: 0

David Hilbert
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If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. Votes: 0

John Updike
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If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Kolbert
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Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage. Votes: 0

Stewart Brand
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The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction. Votes: 0

Dale Jamieson
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This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground. Votes: 0

Mohammed Omar
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All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction. Votes: 0

Robert O. Becker
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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. Votes: 0

Iain Banks
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller
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To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth. Votes: 0

Billy Graham
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The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental. Votes: 0

Ingrid Newkirk
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On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion? Votes: 0

Thomas French
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One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction. Votes: 0

Lance Morrow
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There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction. Votes: 0

John Foster Dulles
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The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together. Votes: 0

Bill Mollison
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Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters. Votes: 0

Maynard James Keenan
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Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction. Votes: 0

Alex Pareene
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When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction. Votes: 0

Darmie Orem
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As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. Votes: 0

Murray Bookchin
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Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy. Votes: 0

Wade Davis
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This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) Votes: 0

Don DeLillo
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction? Votes: 0

Larry Kramer
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The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity. Votes: 0

Katherine Anne Porter
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One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction Votes: 0

Allen Ginsberg
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If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees. Votes: 0

Mark Lynas
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Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future. Votes: 0

Robert Kiyosaki
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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. Votes: 0

Henry Adams
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To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway. Votes: 0

Jared Diamond
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As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction. Votes: 0

Allen W. Wood
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So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction! Votes: 0

Peter Singer
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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal. Votes: 0

June Jordan
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I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces of production, rather than consumption - they should be producing food, and fuel. Votes: 0

Annalee Newitz
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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction. Votes: 0

John Ruskin
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In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction. Votes: 0

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge. Votes: 0

Bill Joy
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Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other. Votes: 0

Fritz Leiber
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. Votes: 0

Wernher von Braun
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Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals. Votes: 0

April Gornik
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.

R. Buckminster Fuller
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Philip Wylie
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The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."

Ramana Maharshi
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Abraham Lincoln
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The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.

Eban Goodstein
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Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we can prevent a mass extinction with the science and technology we have today. We can build carbon neutral cities.

Annalee Newitz
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As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

David Grinspoon
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Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi
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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

David Mitchell
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I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

Yvon Chouinard
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We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

Wayne Pacelle
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Edward Abbey
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Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?

Bill Joy
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After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.

Douglas Gwyn
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There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring the stars … compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

Elon Musk
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It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

Sharon Gannon
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg
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It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.

Selma Fraiberg
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The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

Robert T. Bakker
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If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

E. O. Wilson
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

George Santayana
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Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

Louie Psihoyos
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The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

Sylvia Earle
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A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species.

Thom Hartmann
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Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

Adolf Hitler
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We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

Philip Wollen
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In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

Gautama Buddha
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

Charles Krauthammer
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Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

Douglas Engelbart
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Animal extinction (27 quotes)

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. Votes: 2 Paul Watson

Species Extinction (42 quotes)

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals. Votes: 4 April Gornik


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