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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Acres Bears Before Being Billions Communities Consider Each Each Year Feet First Forest Forests Home Make Moose Nation Northern Off Ontario Paper Rip Some Stuff Summertime Three Toilet Toilet Paper Well Wolves Year You

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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Amplified Annual Area Atlantic Being Effects Even Event Falls Forest Frequency Fungus Global Global Warming Increases Instead Jersey Less Loss New New Jersey Rain Rivers Roots Runs Size Sucked Tree Up Warming Water

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I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

~Alex Stamos

Topics: Being Companies Customers Government Honest Important Think Trustworthy Work Wrong

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Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

~Alex Stamos

Topics: Being Billion End Information Job Over People Personal Personal Information Responsibility Tough

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The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between the trust people have in us and our growth.

~Alex Stamos

Topics: About Being Between Facebook Growth Here Job Nice Nice Thing Our People Thing Trade-Off Trust Understood Us Well

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A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: Back Been Being Country Democracy Despite Government Held India Lot Meant Millions Millions Of People Never People People Say Poor Remember Say Starve

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Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: American Being Brute Exert Ideal Important John John Wayne Manhood More Much Notion Power Rather Restrain Than Thinking Through Very Way Wayne Yourself

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I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.

~Alex Trebek

Topics: Being Believe Difficult Jeopardy More Program Test Than I Believe I Believe The

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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

~Alex Trebek

Topics: Assistance Atmosphere Audience Being Best Bit Contestants Doing Get Guy Job Me Nice Nice Guy Perceived Perform Provide Star Successful Them Think Very Will

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I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.

~Alex Turner

Topics: Almost Attention Being Birthday Centre Difficult Either Every Every Night Feel Front Get Like Might Night Opening People Play Position Presents Sense Songs Sound Stage Up

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