January 2012
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent...
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the...
– Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
December 2011
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not...
– Stephen Spender, World Within World
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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely...
– Howard Zinn
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First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I...
– Pastor Martin Niemöller
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
November 2011
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world....
– Lao-tzu
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions;...
– Edward O. Wilson
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MENTICIDE - the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s...
– Menticide | Define Menticide at Dictionary.com
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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives...
– Howard Zinn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to...
– Lord Acton
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Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit...
– Robert C. Fuller
October 2011
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter,...
– Dr. Seuss
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get...
– Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
September 2011
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a...
– Leopold, Aldo: Round River, Oxford University Press
April 2011
3 posts
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight...
– Plato - Memorable Quotes and quotations
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When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
– John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote
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March 2011
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In my view, nuclear power represents an unjustified faith in the power of human...
– The Automatic Earth: March 13 2011: How Black is the Japanese Nuclear Swan?
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The community, not the individual, is the basic unit of human survival.
– John Michael Greer
January 2011
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December 2010
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It is only when compassion is present that people will allow themselves to see...
– A.H. Almaas - Compassion, Truth and Suffering
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October 2010
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The difference between dog tweets & cat tweets
This is what Dog Tweets would look like:
8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE! 10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE! 4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 5:00 PM - OH...
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People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are...
– De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
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September 2010
7 posts
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save...
– Mikhail Bakunin - Wikiquote
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A man should believe in himself. When he has an original thought, he should...
– Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An important feature of villages is the village square, a place where streets...
– Ran Prieur
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In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison...
– Howard Zinn via Linda Buzzell: Wise Words for Tough Times
August 2010
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to...
– T. S. Eliot Quotes
One of my favourite quotes.
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The first need is to become aware of the world in which we live; to survey its...
– John Dewey via What is CP?
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Dale Pendell: An Economy Not Worth Saving →
An economy that is dependent on people buying things they don’t need, ever new gewgaws and gadgets, with money they don’t have, is not worth saving. An economy that has to grow just to cover its own debts is not worth saving. An economy dependent on the energy of fossil fuels to avoid collapse is not worth saving. Why is an economy where most of the profits go to one percent of the...
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist...
– The Truth About Tytler
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Man everywhere is dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about...
– Sir Laurens van der Post, Jung and The Story of Our Time, 1976 (via World Transformation Movement)
July 2010
3 posts
Take a Moment to Listen Today
Take a moment to listen today To what your children are trying to say. Listen today, whatever you do Or they won’t be there to listen to you. Listen to their problems, listen to their needs; Praise their smallest triumphs, praise their smallest deeds. Tolerate their chatter, amplify their laughter, Find out what’s the matter, find out what they’re after— But tell them that you...
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June 2010
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Soren Gordhamer: If the Buddha Used Twitter . . . →