"Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth."

-- M. King Hubbert

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“Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.”
“Civilize the mind but make savage the body.”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
“My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.”

Source : "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.
“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.”
“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2014). “Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness”, p.154, Algonquin Books
“I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.”
“However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse”

Source : Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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