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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"Every misfortune is a fortune."

"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."

"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."

"To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be."

"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."
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"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness."

"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."

"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."

"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."

"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."

"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."

"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
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