"Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely"

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Source : Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

Alan AtKisson

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“Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!”
“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”
“The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”
“Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.”

Source : John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press
“I hope that young girls will have the dream and will have experiences. And it might not be in swimming. It might be in something else. But I found a passion, and I love it. It's something I love and something I enjoy. It's something I'm good at. And it's what I have been able to give 100 percent to.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
“I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.”
“When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere”

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