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“In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.”
Source : Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”
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“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it's that private perpetual struggle. Put down that magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”
Source : "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.
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“He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.”
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“I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.”
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“Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.”
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“There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.”
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“I never go looking for child pornography, but I mean, if somebody sends me an email with some pictures, I'm not going to turn around and report them.”
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“Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.”