"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."

-- Wendell Berry

#Effort Quotes #World Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.”

Source : "Daily Show", www.mrc.org. January 18, 2012.
“The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.”
“Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.”
“Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.”
“No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality”
“You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.”
“I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.”
“If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.”

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