"The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves."

-- Bill Mollison

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“I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.”

Source : "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.
“It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.”

Source : Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1919). “Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches”
“Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.”
“Get on with life because life gets on without you.”
“The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.”
“Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.”
“Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.”
“Curiosity is the main energy.”

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