"The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch."

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Source : "Whole Earth Models and Systems". "The CoEvolution Quarterly", p. 98 - 108, Summer 1982.

Donella Meadows

#Simple Quotes #World Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
“You have to look at history as an evolution of society.”
“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”
“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”
“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.”
“Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.”
“You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.”

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