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“It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.”
Source : James H. Boren (1982). “Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success”, Epm Pubns Inc
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“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.”
Source : "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.
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“There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.”
Source : Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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“I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.”
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“It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.”
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“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.”
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“In great things it is enough even to have willed.”
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“Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.”