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Growth Quotes by Donella Meadows
- Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.
- Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.
- Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. — Richard Bach
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's… — Erykah Badu
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin