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“Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.”

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“The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle”

“Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely”

Given Vision Conditions Future Trends Sustainability Sustainable Development

Book:The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

Source: The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

“Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be”

Political Choices Vision Future Sustainability Agriculture Sustainable Development

Author:Gary Lawrence

“Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts”

World Needs Effort Vision Creative Impossible Generations Building Healthy Future Future Generation Sustainable Development Healthy Society

Author:Christopher Flavin

“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”

Feels Long Taste Mouths Anger Metals

Book:Matched

Source: Matched

“You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.”

Use Hands Spirit Anger Angry Distance Silent

Author:John J. Geddes

“Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.”

Has Beens Art Lasts Objects Wall Decades Twisted Ripped Off The Wall

Author:Ashley Bickerton

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