Joel Garreau Quotes

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• We are at an inflection point in history.
• The next frontier is our own selves.
• Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.
• The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that…
• In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
• It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and…
• The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many…
• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it…
• Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it…
• Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
• If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't…
• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so…
• Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact…
• In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and…
• There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.
• There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you…
• The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a…
• The essence of being human is being creative.
• Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

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