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«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
| About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
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«Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.»
Author: I Ching
| Keywords:
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«For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Death and dying,
Value
| Keywords:
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«All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.»
«Great ideas originate in the muscles.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
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«It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.»
Author: Buddha
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«Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
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«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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