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• "To seek to set an example in understanding or seeking to do so, current contemporary issues of our society."
  
  
• "The Blurry lines between humans and technology."
  
  
• "A problem recognised is a problem half solved" - Grandad 
• Its time for a major rethink.
• “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything..." - Richard Feynman
  
  
• We have politicians happy to do the bidding of their corporate mates while speaking of fairness. It’s the great, unspoken lie, rarely challenged by our docile media" - ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN

   

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• "Modern politics is business politics...This is true both of foreign and domestic policy. Legislation, police surveillance, the administration of justice, the military and diplomatic service, all are chiefly concerned with business relations, pecuniary interests, and they have little more than an incidental bearing on other human interests." -Thorstein Veblen
  
  
• "Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, and all of the great wonders of the modern era meant little to the wealthy. These achievements made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful." –Dr. Milton Friedman

• “In the moral calculus of capitalism, greater profits in the next quarter outweigh the fate of your grandchildren.”
  
  
• "Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act." (Ai Weiwei)
  
  
• "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
  
  
• "All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whipped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always sceptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others." - H.L. Mencken
  
  
• "If it is only difficult, it is done; if it is impossible, we shall see.” - J. F. Michaud
  
  
• “If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.” -Terence McKenna
  
  
• "You can't change the fruit without changing the root" (plant a new plant)
  
  
• “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”-Robert A. Heinlein
  
  
• "The More we care about complete strangers; the more society will evolve into something much more beautiful."
  
  
• "I am not trying to imitate nature, I am trying to find the Principals she's using" - Bucky Fuller
  
  
• you can judge the resource efficiency of every society regardless of technological level, by spare time left over from 'work' & distribution of resources to ensure the survival of its members....
  This includes how well said society manages its ecological footprint to ensure long term survival within the local environment.

• "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten foot chain." -Adlai Stevenson
  
  
• It has often proved true that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and thereality of tomorrow. “ ” Robert Goddard
  
  
• "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly. The rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G. K. Chesterton
  
  
• "Sometimes people forget to consider that money might be a tool which we may be outgrowing, not a goal. Should we be so bold?". 
  
  
• It is easy to decry a broken system. It is harder to figure out how to live in it.
  
  
• ignorance is a desiese.
  
  
• “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”-Robert A. Heinlein

• Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt. "Our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability...ditching that cruel system in favor of something new is no longer a matter of mere ideological preference but rather one of species-wide existential necessity."
  
  
• "We are on a quest for revolutionary ideas, that can change the world tomorrow". - Julian Assange
  
  
• "The problem is not why 40% are unemployed; it is why the [remaining] 60% still have to work." --Chairman Visar Arifaj, in response to the high unemployment rate in Kosovo
  
  
• “Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.” Sandra Bullock
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•  Even the smallest person can change the course of the future-Gandalf(LoTR fotr)
  
  
• "Long term thinking is not radical."

• Our Democracy has been hacked. Big money, anonymous donors, "corporations-as-people", "entertainment-as-news", Members of Congress-as-supplicants to the wealthy and powerful, and apathy-as-irony -- all are threats to our freedom. One of the best solutions is to accelerate the transition of our democratic institutions to the internet as quickly as possible -- to bypass the gatekeepers who charge huge tolls for access to the public's mind over television.

          Got to get back to 24 Hours of Reality. Please tune in to the                          24th hour at climaterealityproject.org

• “You should never ask a historian to predict the future—we have enough trouble predicting the past.” AJP Taylor
  
  
• "Nothing is impossible, particularly if it is inevitable" - Herman Mulder
  
  
• "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
  
  
• Yesterday is yesterday and tomorrow is a mystery
  
  
• "We can no longer imitate the past. No... no that will not do at all".
  
  
• "Peace cannot be achieved in a system when there are people who make profits on war"
  
  
• "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." -Miguel De Cervantes

• "I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realized I AM SOMEBODY".
  
  
• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. -JFK,

• "Fight for your world, not your country."
  
  
• ‎"The truth is that we cannot go on successfully automating our production without rethinking our attitudes toward consumption, work, leisure, and the distribution of income. Without such efforts of social imagination, recovery from the current crisis will simply be a prelude to more shattering calamities in the future."

• The reality is that the system of Cyclical Consumption  (to perpetuate labor), combined with Technological Unemployment (to increase cost efficiency) combined with the natural limits on "growth" (finite resources) is what defines the grinding "collapse" we currently see accelerating. It won't stop. The system has to go. ~Peter

• If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution ~ Emma Goldman

• “It is not enough to think, we must, collectively, challenge ourselves to be critical of our own views and those of others, no matter how treasured they may be - to think about, in short, the things we think about”
  
  
• "Where you stand depends on where you sit."
  
  
• "All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man."
  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  
  
• "If It's Important, You'll Find a Way. If It's Not Important, You'll Find an Excuse."
  
  
• "Some things we are doing is just like rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic".
  
  
• "When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides." -Dr Wayne Dyer
  
  
• ‎"People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as “parasites” fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by it’s host, one that can make it’s host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society." - Jason Read
  
  
• ‎"Live as if you were going to die tomorrow,Learn as if you were going to live forever"
  
  
•  "Man is the veriest slave of custom, and many points in the routine of his existence are deemed essentially important, which are only so at all because by his having rendered them habitual." ~ Edgar Allan Poe 
  
  
•  We are here on earth to lead our lives because our consciousness must be developed so that it gathers knowledge, gathers wisdom, builds up love, peace, freedom, and harmony. Eduard Albert Meier
  
  
•  “There is nothing on my horizon except everything. Everything is on my horizon.” -- D.K. Schrute
  
  
•  ‎"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done, then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago" 
  
  ~Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  
• ‎"Beware of he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master." Commissioner Pravin Lal, U.N. Declaration of Rights
  
  
• "The first truth is... a democracy is not safe if people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by... any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938
  
  
• Nothing is a powerful than an idea whose time has come...
  
  
• “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” - Richard Feynman
  
  
• "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside." -Robert Kennedy

• “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” — Franz Kafka
  

• "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
  
  
• "The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect." -Quentin Tarantino in Four Rooms 
  
  
• Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality. -- Alan Kay
  
  
• "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~ Franklin
  
  
• "Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." -Leon Trotsky
  
  
• "Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. " - H.L. Mencken

• "Each day I arise, torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy the world. This makes it difficult to plan the day." E.B. White
  
  
• "Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens." - Howard Zinn
  
  
• "What would you do? What kind of form, what kind of role you think you can play? Are you going to maximise your self-interest or are you going to realise that your self-interest is only as good as the integrity of society as a whole, where self-interest must become social-interest in order for us to survive. That is the new equation, and that is the big question." ~ Peter Joseph
  
  
• "To fail in what you've yet to achieve is more the spirit of exploration than to make no attempt at all." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  
  
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. <Albert Einstein>
  
  
• "What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises." - G. C. Lichtenberg 
  
  
• To those who say a world without money will not work, how exactly is the world WITH money working?
  
  
• “He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality and will never, therefore, make any progress.”
  
  
• The future is revealed to us by those with uncommon ideas and questions.
  
  
• "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon".
  
  
• ‎...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has traveled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest. 
  -The Nature of Thought (1939), Vol II, 264, Brand Blanshard
  
  
• "No single person on this earth is any greater or lesser than any other. Every human being strives for happiness, and to avoid suffering. We must extend love and compassion to all, especially to those we deem our enemies." - Justin D. Whitehead 
  
  
• "A well informed populace is the best defence against tyranny."
  -Unknown
  
  
• “If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.” - Wes Nisker
  
  
• We might even decide to dispense with money when we see that it doesn't add to the human experience any longer... Financial greed as a motivator for its own sake has to go.
  
  
• ‎"The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves." Jacque Fresco
  
  
• "Humans are the only species that pay to live on Earth."
  
  
• "From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"- Edgar Mitchell
  
  
• "Without money we would all be rich."
  
  
• "Big problems need big ideas"
  
  
• “There are some things in our society, and some things in our world, to which I am proud to be maladjusted. I call upon all men of goodwill to be maladjusted to these things, until the good society is realized.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
  
  
• ‎"Money isn't the root of all evil, the love and pursuit of money is"
  
  
• ‎"If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few."
  
  
• “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein
  
  
• "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William A. Ward (picture link)
  
  
• ‎"You dont need to protest... you just need  to think."
  
  
• "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." -Saul Bellow
  
  
• “Sustainable Abundance; Living a big life, leaving a little footprint”
• The only thing that is impossible in the universe is to teach people not to use the word impossible. -Eugene Nosko
• James May at the Edge of Space: "If everybody could d`o that once, it would completely change the face of global politics, religion, education, everything."

• "It would be good to see more ideas debated in Parliament. Not personalities."

• "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." Oscar Wilde