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• One could also envisage a future in which America learns a different lesson. A communal spirit, ironically born through social distancing, causes people to turn outward, to neighbors both foreign and domestic. The election of November 2020 becomes a…

  Ed Yong

• The new knowledge economy created a new class of Americans: men and women with college degrees, skilled with symbols and numberssalaried professionals in information technology, computer engineering, scientific research, design, management…

  George Packer

• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with…

  Joseph Campbell

• After two million years this is the end of the beginning. Referring to the new era of gene editing and human evolution.

  2019 Human Nature documentary

• We have been pumping out persistent data since our first oral exchange of a good story and our first experimental handprint on a cave wall. Neither of those things were explicitly encoded in our DNA, yet they could readily outlive the individual who…

  Caleb Scharf

• There are two extremes to worry about. One is the extreme in which everything is known and there’s nothing left to do. The other is where everything is so complicated you can never begin to do anything. We are lucky to live in a universe were…

  Carl Sagan

• Liberal democracy is based on a level of optimism, faith and a sense of security. It’s based on confidence in the humanistic project: that through conversation and encounter, we can deeply know each other across differences; that most people are…

  David Brooks

• All too often, we behave as if we are gods. Foolishly, we have made a religion of science. We have forgotten that in a world of unknowables, the application of science is necessarily tentative and ideological. It is a tool, one of many that we can…

  Jonathan Cook

• It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between…

  Emergence Magazine

• Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty

  Albert Einstein

• The past is never dead, and it’s not even the past

  William Faulkner

• Remember that none of us will be here for the end of the story, but it's on all of us to make sure it's one worth telling.

  Tim Cook

• What sounds good isn’t usually what works

  Jessica Wildfire

• Don't believe everything you think.

  Allan Lokos

• It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do,…

  Plato’s Republic, Book 7

• Our minds don’t reside exclusively in our brains or bodies, but extend out into the physical environment

  David Chalmers and Andy Clark

• Do nothing Take a long shower Play a game without keeping score Cook a big meal Take a solo walk Just sit down

  Annamarie Dooling

• Everything that can be digitized will be digitized. And it will happen before you know it.

  Kara Swisher

• Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

  Warren Buffett

• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig