"Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life."

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Source : David C. Korten (2010). “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

David Korten

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“Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.”
“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”
“There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live,”
“Just like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance round it throws, Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose, And in the midst of briars it blows Just like Love.”
“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”
“Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.”
“The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.”
“The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.”

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