"You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient."

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Source : "The Sameness of Organisms, Cities, and Corporations". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.

Geoffrey West

#Order Quotes #Law Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
“A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.”
“Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that”
“The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.”

Source : Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books
“When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.”
“men i swear." -jacky faber”
“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

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