"There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process."

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Source : "Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten". Interview with Dean Paton, www.yesmagazine.org. February 20, 2015.

David Korten

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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.
“Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.”
“People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.
“Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.”

Source : Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243
“It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.”
“I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.”
“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.”

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