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I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

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Garrett James Hardin

Garrett James Hardin

Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 - September 14, 2003) was a leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons . He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which states "You cannot do only one thing", and used the ubiquitous phrase "Nice guys finish last" to sum up the "selfish gene" concept of life and evolution .

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