"Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally."

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Source : Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.278, Oxford University Press

Garrett Hardin

#Problem Quotes

“The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.”
“I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.”

Source : Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.
“Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.”
“What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.”
“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
“Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.”
“Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.”

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