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• Make the familiar seem exotic and the exotic seem familiar.

  Raymond Loewy

• we C what greed does, it is kiLLing oFF this PLANET that SuStainS US aLL 4 a mere dollar - wheN oUr planeT is GONE where is greed then ???

  an Angry Old White Guy

• I believe that humans will eventually disappear. They cannot live in nature, they’re above it so Mother Nature will rid herself of us not living harmoniously with our fellow creatures. We are a bad experiment and she will move on. In the scheme of…

  Eddie Lew

• But humans ultimately are stupid, myopic creatures and their governing structures run by greedy, self-absorbed boobs.

  Phil Carson

• Seven Social Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi To be…

  Howard Zinn

• …the role-playing game is to our century what the novel was to the 18th century, a new mode of experience and self-creation.

  Jon Askonas

• Despite our best efforts, some things we believe are probably wrong. We certainly are very keen on recognizing the errors of past times and other nations. Why should our nation, why should our time, be different? If there are things that we believe,…

  Carl Sagan

• We must create agreed upon understanding as a foundation for positive action.

  Jack Dangermond

• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

• To connect people at the deepest level, you need stories.

  Robert McKee

• Modern maps don’t have a memory.

  Jim Enote

• The road to wisdom?
-- Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.

  Piet Hein

• …yes it is quite possible to take a very intelligent human and make them believe completely ridiculous things, in a manner similar to the Marcus/Davis blunder-eliciting inputs (hereinafter BEIs). Given that humans have been provided by evolution…

  J. Storrs Hall

• Scientific progress depends on the search exploring the infinitesimal fraction of the space in which the true theories are likely to lie, and this depends on the quality of the intelligence, not just its raw speed.

  Steven Pinker

• Most futurists are really predicting the present. It turns out that the present is very hard to see.

  Kevin Kelly

• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

• It’s a funny thing to experience one’s passion - sexual desire - no longer a sort of wandering thing, but steady and calm. I think when one loves, one’s very sexual passion becomes calm, a steady sort of force instead of a storm. Passion that…

  Frieda Lawrence to husband DL Lawrence

• Narrative and story are how we understand our lives. We tell ourselves stories of who we've been, who we are now, and where we're going. The way we tell our own story, structuring our narrative of ourselves and our place in the world around us,…

  Rab Ferguson

• It took me hours to understand what it was, why I was weeping. I realized I was in grief. I was grieving for the destruction of the Earth.

  William Shatner

• Life is purposeful. Death is optional. God is technological. Love is essential.

  Martine Rothblatt