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- We are the only species on this planet without full employment.
- Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was…
- Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a…
- Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets…
- You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know…
- The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle…
- Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes…
- Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
- Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they…
- Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night,…
- Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to…
- We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.
- That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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