"I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy."

-- Anne Lamott

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“The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.”

Source : "The Biology of Globalization". World Futures: Vol. 55, Challenges of Evolution at the Turn of the Millennium: Part III: The Chllenges of Globalization and Sustainability, pp. 105-127, 2000.
“The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction”
“It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Onlyâ€”Is it beingâ€”not very comfortableâ€”and crossâ€”and not quite happy, when you arenâ€™t there?â€ â€œThat, my darling,â€ said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,â€œis exactly what it s!â€ â€œOhâ€”!â€ Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. â€œNow I know! I am in love!”
“What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.”
“Psychics exploit the human beings natural desire that longs for something higher. â€¦ The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with the opposite sexâ€¦psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”
“The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.”
“I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.”

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