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I found it in a 1901 issue of Messenger of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic periodical.
I was actually looking for another Lenin quote and somehow I found that source right before I found this site asking about it.
I guess actually it's "state" instead of "country".
The “divorce mills " are grinding our country to powder; for if you destroy the ...
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The source is Bell's great-grandson Edwin S. Grosvenor who coauthored the 1997 book Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man who Invented the Telephone where on page 275 he quotes Bell as writing:
While we would lose some of the sun's heat, we would gain some of the earth's heat which is normally radiated into space. ... I am inclined to ...
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TL;DR: Alexander Graham Bell was concerned with fossil fuels running out, but not climate change per se.
Bell was concerned about the inevitable depletion of fossil fuels — “What shall we do when we have no more coal and oil?” So in a 1917 article for National Geographic Magazine, he urged the development of renewable ethanol fuel from agricultural waste, ...
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I have found some people quoting this as Vonnegut: "Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument." But as Einstein said, "Be skeptical about things you read on the ...
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