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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

~C. V. Raman

Topics: Aspirations Been City Date Did Due Early Early Work Entirely Extinction First Great Great City Me Opportunities Provided Publication Research Scientific Soon Suffer Will Work Years

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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.

~Calvin Coolidge

Topics: Classes Device Extinction Government Maintaining People Privileged Rights States Ultimate United United States

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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.

~Cameron Russell

Topics: Accompanied Attributed Been Being Change Climate Climate Change Extinction Facing Fact First Five History Humans In Fact Incredibly Mass Massive Now Right Serious Sixth Technically The History Of Threat World

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Exception Extinction Rule Survival

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In recent years, our planet has been warming at an alarming rate and seen record-breaking temperatures. We are now witnessing the sixth mass extinction event in the earth's geologic history. Our sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, threatening our largest cities, like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

~Catherine Cortez-Masto

Topics: Alarming Angeles Been Cities Earth Event Extinction History Largest Levels Like Los Los Angeles Mass Miami New New York Now Our Our Planet Planet Rate Recent Recent Years Rising Sea Seen Sixth Temperatures Threatening Warming Witnessing Years York

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The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Change Children Climate Climate Change Continue Cost Crises Destruction Direction Energy Exhaust Exhaustion Extinction Frightful Habitat Headed Humankind Leading Left Natural Natural Resources Nothing Our Pollution Resources Same Same Direction Some Success Success Is Will You Your

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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.

~Dan Gable

Topics: Am Any College Concerned Danger Drops Extinction Means Program Think Wrestling I Am

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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.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Act Beyond Businesses Causing Change Climate Climate Change Damage Destroyed Driven Ecosystems Extinction Fail Get Goes Homes Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Infrastructure Lives Lost People Smashed Species Thousands Will Worse

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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.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Call Causing Civilization Death Extinction Greatest History Industrial Mass Matter Planet Poison Still The History Of

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It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: About Being Count Destroying Diversity Essentially Every Extinction Fair Gone Greatly Guess Habitat Hour Population Pushing Rate Reduced Species Whose Within

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