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"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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Personal Development
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
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"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
First
"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."
Change
"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."
Money
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
Environment
"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
Oil
"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."
Improvement
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
Poverty
"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."
Age
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
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