"During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits."

-- Ray Anderson

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“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Source : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.”
“I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.59, Macmillan
“You know what I want, above all things? I want people who are aware of my music right now, to believe in change.”
“There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.”
“Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.”
“Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me,”
“it sucks to get old...but there's always beer”

Source : James Rollins (2008). “Map of Bones”, p.57, Hachette UK

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