"Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive."

-- Paul Gilding

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“The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!”
“I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.”
“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.”
“Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.”
“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.”
“But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.”
“The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.188, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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