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John Perkins: “None of the quick fixes to the world's problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity that the world is dreaming.
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Pema Chodron: “When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
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John Locke: “The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property.... As much as anyone can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labor fix a property in: whatever is beyond this is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.
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Bertrand Russell: “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Marc Estrin: “Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
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Albert Einstein: “The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
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Frederick Turner: “To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni di Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.
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Bob Dylan: “All the money you make will never buy back your soul.
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Janwillem van de Wetering: “Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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Samuel Gompers: “What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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