"We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!"

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Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.170, Chelsea Green Publishing

Donella Meadows

#Figures Quotes

“This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.”
“I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.”
“Your smile is one that goes on for miles. Your eyes shine like the brightest star in the night sky. When I see the first message you send me in the morning it lights up my day. When our lips touch I feel like I'm the luckiest guy alive. When I hold you in my arms I feel as if time freezes and nothing can tear us apart. You constantly make me smile and there's never a moment that goes by that I don't think of you. You mean the world to me and I don't know what I'd do without you in my life. I truly love you!”
“If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!”
“One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.”
“Lifeâ€™s better with company.Â Everybody needs a co-pilot.”
“The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”
“Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.62, BoD – Books on Demand

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