September 2011
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To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we...
– The Four Agreements, p17
August 2011
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 2011
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There is no “they” — businesses are guided by all of...
– Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale, p 119
May 2011
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The EPA acknowledges that triclosan is linked to antibiotic resistance, and that...
– Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale, p22
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Our life expectancy is the shortest and our infant mortality rate is the highest...
– Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale, p18
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What other people think of you is none of your business, that’s their burden,...
– Faylee James on The Self Improvement Blog
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If you define yourself by your possessions and financial status, you’ll never...
– Lighten Up by Peter Walsh, p7
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting...
– Frederick Koenig
November 2010
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Despite labor regulations, the number of hours we toil today is more than the...
– Radical Homemakers, p88
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Since corporations claim no legal accountability other than to make money for...
– Radical Homemakers, p51
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We must realize that we can be empowered and find opportunity when we live...
– Radical Homemakers, p50
October 2010
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A person who thinks constantly of loss, lack, failure, and bankruptcy cannot...
– Think Yourself Rich, p35
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What we wish and think for others, we tend to manifest in our own experience,...
– Think Yourself Rich, p9
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Your thoughts and feelings control your destiny.
– Think Yourself Rich, p5
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People search for the greatest secret in the world everywhere but within...
– Think Yourself Rich, p2
July 2010
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We don’t need to worry about people unconsciously “absorbing”...
– Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, p9
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Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no...
– Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, p3
June 2010
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The future of medicine is no medicine. If monkeys one day lost the instincts...
– Clean, p 231
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We train the factory workers of tomorrow. Our graduates are very good at...
– Linchpin by Seth Godin
May 2010
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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As soon as your recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness...
– Daivd Baird
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Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I’d rather live it...
– “No Regrets” by Aesop Rock
April 2010
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it...
– James Baldwin
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It is not facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts,...
– Norman Angel
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
– Christopher Morley
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than...
– Mark Twain
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Know what your problem is (Shapiro)?It’s that you just have this really...
– The Wackness, Stefanie
March 2010
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Sharing a meal is a way to connect, to nourish our bodies, our minds, and our...
– Shift Your Habit, p64
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Ideally, a meal should be enjoyed at the dinner table with friends and family,...
– Shift Your Habit, p64
February 2010
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I suppose that in real life, we have to distinguish between those catastrophes...
– Resilience, p35
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Since 1960, the nation’s municipal waste stream has nearly tripled, reaching a...
– Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte
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Trying is nothing. You can’t say, “Well, I’m going to try to...
– I’m With the Band: Confessions of Groupie, p261
January 2010
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Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has...
– In Defense of Food, p187
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For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of...
– In Defense of Food, p187
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Apparently it is easier, or at least a lot more proftable, to change a disease...
– In Defense of Food, p136
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This is a global pandemic in the making, but a most unusual one, because it...
– In Defense of Food, p136
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Much more so than the human body, capitalism is marvelously adaptive, able to...
– In Defense of Food, p135
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Clearly the achievements of industrial agriculture have come at a cost: It can...
– In Defense of Food, p121
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Hours of their downtime is spent in front of the television, switching from...
– via Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason - Violent Acres
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I was making choices just to appease the opinions of people around me, when I...
– Shaun Boyd in 10 Articles That Changed My Life · LifeReboot.com
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...
– Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford 2005
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As for the Western diseases, they hadn’t gone away-indeed, rates of heart...
– In Defense of Food, p101
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The human animal is adapted to, and apparently van thrive on, an extraordinary...
– In Defense of Food, p100
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Store food is food designed to be stored and transported over long distances,...
– In Defense of Food, p97
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What we know is that people who eat the way we do in the West today suffer...
– In Defense of Food, p90
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You can cage an animal, but you can’t take away the rage.
– “Heroes” by Shinedown
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Damn the Man! Save the Empire!
– Mark from Empire Records
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I don’t want to change the world, and I don’t want the world to...
– Ozzy Osbourne “I Don’t Want To Change the World”
December 2009
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We use our intellects not to solve practical problems, but to outwit each other....
– The Red Queen, p33-34
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
– Mark Twain