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"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
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"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."
"We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change."
"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."
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"Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration."
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."
"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."
"That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age."
"Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future."
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
"Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production."
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