A Quotes
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“An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.”
“An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.”
“An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It's as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.”
“An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.”
“An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.”
Source: Ecology Against Capitalism
“An ecological farmer once told me that he quit industrial farming when he realized that his first waking thought every morning was: 'I wonder what's dead up there in the hog house today?' He couldn't hear the birds chirping. He couldn't enjoy the sunrise, or the rainbow after a thunderstorm. And his kids wanted nothing to do with the farm.
But after this epiphany, he closed down the pig concentration camp and devoted himself to pasture-based farming. Suddenly his children wanted to be involved. His thoughts turned lofty. He developed a can-do spirit. And his emotional zest returned.”
Source: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
“An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.”
“an ecologist named Garrett Hardin wrote an article titled, The Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin’s thesis was that individuals acting in their rational self-interest would use whatever resources are available to them, blithely ignoring the fact that any finite resource eventually runs out, which is disastrous for everyone, including themselves. To illustrate, Harden used the metaphor of the open pasture, the commons as he called it, to which herdsmen bring their cattle to feed. Understandably, the herdsmen seek to feed as many cattle as possible in order to maximize their income and improve their lives. Over time however, the effects of overgrazing take a progressive toll on the commons, eventually rendering it unusable for all herdsmen.”
Source: Dealing with The Devil, My Mother, Trump and Me
“An economic ecosystem that disrespects natural ecosystems will be disrespected by natural ecosystems.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.”
“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”
“An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.”
Source: When Corporations Rule the World
“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”
“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“An Economist analyses the gain of prosperity and the pain of poverty.”
“An economist doesn't know how to make money, but he claims to know what to do with it once someone else makes money.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.”
Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers
“An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.”
“An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.”
“An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.”
“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
“An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.”
“An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.”
“An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.”
“An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.”
“An economy funded by subsidy is no economy in an ideal sense.”
Source: Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread?
“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.”
“An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.”
“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”
“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.”
“An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.”
“An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.”
“An economy should be regenerative by design. That's what a permaculture economy is.”
“An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.”
“An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty”
“An economy where even a few people cannot afford a snack, shelter, and survival is a failed economy.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.”
“An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another.”
“An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.”
“An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“an ecstatically happy writing person is often a totally draining type to have around.”
“An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.”
“An editor doesn't just read, he reads well, and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its scribes, only great writing. Scribes had to submit to a curious ruse: they had to downplay their reading skills lest they antagonize their employer. The Attic poet Menander wrote: "those who can read see twice as well." Ancient autocrats did not want their subjects to see that well. Order relied on obedience, not knowledge and reflection. So even though he was paid to read as much as write messages, the scribe's title cautiously referred to writing alone (scribere = "to write"); and the symbol for Nisaba, the Mesopotamian goddess of scribes, was not a tablet but a stylus. In his excellent book A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel writes, "It was safer for a scribe to be seen not as one who interpreted information, but who merely recorded it for the public good."
In their fear of readers, ancients understood something we have forgotten about the magnitude of readership. Reading breeds the power of an independent mind. When we read well, we are thinking hard for ourselves—this is the essence of freedom. It is also the essence of editing. Editors are scribes liberated to not simply record and disseminate information, but think hard about it, interpret, and ultimately, influence it.”
Source: The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
“An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.”
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”
Source: The Letters of E. B. White
“An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.”