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Coexistence is not toleration; it is resonance; it is the nature of the human ecology.
Lean Logic (2016)
Do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation.
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Life-saving information tends to come in local dialects.
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Wisdom is intelligence drenched in culture.
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Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
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Large-scale problems do not require large-scale solutions; they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework.
Without a sense of history, our expectations are the product of how we live now.
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Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.
As people surrender the power to build the institutions they want, which would enable lives that make sense to them, the system as a whole sacrifices the intelligence it needs: it loses its minds.
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The study of economic lift-off is well developed; touch-down has not been considered. There is an asymmetry here which would invite comment if applied to aviation.
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The claim that industrial agriculture is the only way of feeding a large population is about as scientific as a belief in Creationism - and far more damaging.
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Crime is valuable feedback about what childhood in a society means, about its education, economics and culture—about whether this is a society that works or not.
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At present, we have a policy-response shaped by sophisticated climate science, brilliant technology and pop behaviourism, based on simple assumptions about carrot-and-stick incentives.
The only problem with capitalism is that it destroys the planet, and that it’s based on growth. I mean apart from those two little details it’s got a lot to be said in its favour.
Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.
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If an argument is a good one, dissonant deeds do nothing to contradict it. In fact, the hypocrite may have something to be said for him; it would be worrying if his ideals were not better than the way he lives.
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While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.
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'The harder I work, the luckier I get'. It was Thomas Jefferson who started the stream of variations on that theme. He should have added, 'The harder I work on one thing, the unluckier I get on all the other commitments I haven’t had time for'.
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