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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
Environment
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
Time
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
Computer
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
Environment
"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
Change
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
Design
"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
Change
"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."
Change
"But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions."
History
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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