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Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard…

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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears…
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity…
The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. — James Allen
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.… — Ramana Maharshi
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name… — Paulo Coelho
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every… — Alexander Hamilton
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful… — Christine de Pizan
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's… — Rafael Sabatini
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage… — John F. Kennedy

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