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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

  Edwin Land

  People, Focus, After Hours

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• And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

  John W. Snow

  Country, Energy, Coal

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

  Robert E. Lee

  Courage, Army, Yield

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• Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Running, Husband

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Health, People, Dignity

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Decision

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• We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Two, Roots

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• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

  Pope John Paul II

  Powerful, Media, Understanding

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• Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

  Lester Thurow

  Thinking, May, Facts

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• Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

  Andrew Simms

  Growth, World, Infinite

  "Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness" by Ashley Seager, Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Men, Female

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• I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

  Frances Fox Piven

  People, Groups, Cooperation

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• Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Able, Way, Anticipation

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Mean, Suffering

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• For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Land, People, Goal

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• Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Land, Cities

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.

  Joan Lunden

  Children, Responsibility, Leader

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• We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

  George McGovern

  Cost, Done, Hunger

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• It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Children, Believe, Past

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• Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness. A country's most valuable resource is its people. So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Educational, Opportunity

  "The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 2015.

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Gratitude, Kings, Food

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