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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. .…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction,…
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Christian life consists of faith and charity
— Martin Luther
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
— Rajneesh
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of…
— Claude Bernard
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Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
— Jean Paul
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
— Nahum Goldmann
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The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.
— Marva Dawn
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