"At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product."

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Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

Paul Hawken

#Calling Quotes #Stealing Quotes #Selling Quotes

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”
“For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.”
“If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.”
“One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.”
“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”

Source : Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage
“Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.”
“Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.”

Source : Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.4, Taylor & Francis
“I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”

Source : "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.

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