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• I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces of production, rather than consumption - they should be producing food, and fuel.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Cities, Fuel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Apology

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• For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.

  David Livermore

  Dangerous Ideas, Keys, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reflection, Terrible Events, Way

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.55, City Lights Books

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• The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.

  Harold Klemp

  True Happiness

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• Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

  Pope Francis

  Letting Go, Adventure, Mean

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

  Gerry Spence

  Slavery, Today, Way

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.36, Macmillan

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• There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

  Max Lucado

  Maturity, Differences, Excellence

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret Destiny... The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. This king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Kings, Hero

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• Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

  Tim Jackson

  Capitalist Economy, Progress, Literature

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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Stronger, Slavery, Accepting

  "Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

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• If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

  Alan Cohen

  Losing, Ifs

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• The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Release, Ecstasy, Aim

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

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• Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

  R. C. Sproul

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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