"Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital."

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Murray Gell-Mann

#Income Quotes #Sustainability Quotes

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”

Source : "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.
“Perseverance is a great element of success.”
“I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Master Shake". "Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV Series). Interfection", www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.”
“It's just the easiest way to score a point.”
“Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.”
“Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.”
“and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.”

Source : Steven Herrick (2014). “Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair”, University of Queensland Press

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