"Whenever we look at life, we look at networks."

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Source : Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.”

Source : Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]”
“The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.”
“So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.”
“I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.”
“Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.”
“I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.”
“Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.”

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