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The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Both Both Sides Bring Decide Enough Evidence Grand Job Jury Only Person Side Sides Trial Weigh Whether

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There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Been Committed Congress Crimes High President Prosecutor Special

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What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: About Cease Clinton Despicable Did He Him Lied Nation Public Reason Repeatedly Resign Threat Trust Us

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Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Aware Communicate Different Existence Hardly Intrinsic Mental Paradigm Process Someone Try Until You Your

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At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Against Back Bending Call Folks Invisible Knitting Leaning Meetings Mistake Nation Off Over People Public Radio See Shy Speak Talk Talk Radio Think Those Town Trouble Wall Who You

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What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Ability America Art Basic College Come Day Degrees Democracy Each Education Every Every Day Great Hear Lack Mean Only Possessed Radio Seek Small Talk Talk Radio Truths Us

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Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Analysis Background Case Energy Energy Policy Every Forces Known Loud Policy Political Politics Self-Serving Shaped Two Well Well Known

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We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Ability Business Concerns Cost Deep Doing Expenses Individuals Intimidate Laws Legal Legitimate Need New Organizations Pockets Used Voice

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We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Animals Businesses Codes Countryside Critically Dead Feeding Food Genetic Live Putting Speak Stop Substances Would

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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Carry Challenger Complex Fantasy Huge Island Large Mile Organizations Our Out Perfection Scale Still Technologies Three Total Witnessed

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14th, 1941

Died: February 20th, 2001

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