"There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion."

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Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.97, Chelsea Green Publishing

Donella Meadows

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Boundaries Quotes

“Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.”
“This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.”
“I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.”

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“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

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“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”
“Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.”
“We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus theres a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And thats totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.”
“Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.”

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