When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water,… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
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We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
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Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
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The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
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We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
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Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
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Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
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When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams.… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
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