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• The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Illumination, Differences

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'

  Paul Caponigro

  Inspiration, Availability, Mind

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• I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.

  Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tourists, Demand

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• That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.

  William J. Mitchell

  Thinking, Cities, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Reality, Sky, Everyday

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Children, Home

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Believe, Years

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. The links are digital encryptions that can and won't be located. That will have to be reassembled over time. It won't be exactly what it was. There will be some slightly altered version. So the book is both an immaterial and material artifact.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Book, Age, Way

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Fields, Language

  "'All of these things are poetry.'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. August 21, 2014.

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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• I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Levels, Attention

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• When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

  Holly Near

  Sound, Willing

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

  Richard Rorty

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Swings

  "Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3". Book by Richard Rorty (Introduction), March 13, 1998.

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• Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Common Sense

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• Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

  Shirley Conran

  Home, Law, House

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

  Ronald Fisher

  Data, Issues, Tasks

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
  All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
  It doesn't know where to find it.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

  Bradley Joseph

  Perseverance, Kings, Successful

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

  Ayya Khema

  Self, Unhappy, Desire

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Drinking, Alcohol, Comforting

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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