Alan AtKisson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
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Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
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This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.
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How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.
-- Alan AtKisson
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Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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Eating is an environmental act.
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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
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