"We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.”

Source : "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.
“She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.”
“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”
“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”
“There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.”
“Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.”
“It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually werenâ€™t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didnâ€™t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you donâ€™t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You donâ€™t want to look at whatâ€™s rotting there.”
“Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.”

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