Sustaining Quotes - Page 9

• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self, Creative, Way

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

  Jonathon Porritt

  Progress, Skins, Minorities

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• Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.

  Henry Beston

  Song, Beach, Ocean

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

  Li Keqiang

  Self, Development, Wealth

  "China Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy" by David Barboza and Chris Buckley, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,' the source for sustaining emotional and spiritual health, is described as being full, open, clear, and strong. These traditions feel that it is important to check the condition of the four-chambered heart daily, asking: 'Am I full-hearted, open-hearted, clear-hearted, and strong-hearted?'

  Angeles Arrien

  Mother, Spiritual, Strong

  Angeles Arrien (1993). “The four-fold way”

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• Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Future, Self, Flying

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  A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Law, Energy

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.164

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• We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Kindness, Law

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.140, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

  Martin Wolf

  Challenges, Growth, Century

  "Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.

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• Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of thyself and others. Even as was written of old: "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in Him: and He shall bring it to pass". (Psalms 37:5) I will be thy sustaining strength; and My peace shall garrison thy mind. Only TRUST ME that all I do is done in love.

  Frances J Roberts

  Hands, Mind, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Responsibility, Fruit

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• One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Animal, Self, Two

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• As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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• I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

  Anne Waldman

  Ethos, Practice, Kind

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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