"To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom."

-- Tom Atlee

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“There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on that kind of basis, I'm not seeing much. I'm just waiting to see.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.”
“I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.”

Source : BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”
“My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.”
“The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.”
“I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.”
“Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.”

Source : "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.
“A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.”

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