"Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and the environment, understanding of the relationships among these concepts is crucial. This volume does a better job of explaining how to manage both money and nature to ensure humanity's long-term future than any other work I know of. Read and reflect."

-- John L. Casti

#Jobs Quotes #Long Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.”
“The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.64, Princeton University Press
“In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.”
“Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.”
“Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.”
“I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.”

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