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- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or…
- I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children;…
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
- A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be…
- Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no…
- In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
- Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
- For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our…
- You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well…
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
- ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community…
- The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.
- At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings…
- The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field…
- I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy…
- When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
- The world is whole beyond human knowing.
- However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found…
- The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be…
- There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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