"consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there are consequences to our acts, and those consequences are environmental degradation and the huge social inequalities that make our standard of living in the United States possible."

-- Judith Levine

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“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.”
“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”
“Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.”
“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”
“I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.”
“I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.”
“My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.”
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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