"We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock."

-- Donella Meadows

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes

“We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”, Dial
“It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.”
“Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.”
“Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.”

Source : "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.
“I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.”
“Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.”
“Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
“I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.”

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