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• If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Government, Law

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4626, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

  John Doerr

  Business, Climate, Economy

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• We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

  Desmond Tutu

  Climate, Use, Tactics

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Karma, Past, Destiny

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Mother, Kings, Beer

  "Going Gonzo In Ft. Collins". The Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1994.

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

  Michio Kushi

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 4), December 1994.

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• If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

  Aristotle

  Art, Mean, Intellectual

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achieved. If I achieve, than I can proudly say I did my job well.

  Erica Brown

  Motivational, Jobs, Challenges

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• Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Lying, Thinking

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• Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

  James Gustave Speth

  Growth, Earth, Patterns

  James Gustave Speth (2008). “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability”, p.1, Yale University Press

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• At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Doubt, Growth, Use

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

  Aristotle

  Government, People, What If

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

  John S. Hall

  People, Soul, Defense

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

  Archilochus

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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• The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

  Epes Sargent

  Clouds, Light, Sunrise

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• This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

  Edward Augustus Freeman

  Land, Would Be, Irishmen

  1881 Of America. Letter to F H Dickinson from New Haven, 4 Dec.

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• The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Expression, Luxury, Comfort

  Jean Baptiste Say (1854). “A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth”, p.397

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• An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Wise, Weight, Principles

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.433

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• If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Class, Community, Wish

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.440

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• The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  People, Temptation, Administration

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.

  William Langland

  'Piers Plowman' B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 10, l. 297

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• Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Reality, Fabric, Moments

  Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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