A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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FRANCES BEINECKE We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we hav...
FRANCES BEINECKE When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must...
FRANCES BEINECKE Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
FRANCES BEINECKE The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba...
FRANCES FARMER We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gesture...
FRANCES BEINECKE Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any t...
FRANCES HARDINGE Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate im...
FRANCES BEINECKE Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're goi...
FRANCES MAYES I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue...
FRANCES O'GRADY Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetu...
FRANCES BEINECKE Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil an...
FRANCES BEINECKE The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD If you have made it this far doing nothing... imagine what you can do if you actually apply yourself...
J-FRANCES When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmenta...
FRANCES BEINECKE New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, a...
FRANCES BEINECKE After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
FRANCES RODMAN From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and se...
FRANCES BEINECKE Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce fl...
FRANCES BEINECKE The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew th...
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