Inspiring Quotes 9

Just a simple listing to start with, this section will need a reorganisation (by topic?)


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 * "To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment ." Jane Austen


 * "In making any law, our chiefs must always consider three things: the effect of their decision on peace; the effect on the natural world; and the effect on seven generations in the future. We believe that all lawmakers should be required to think this way, that all constitutions should contain these rules. . .. " Carol Jacobs, Cayuga Bear Clan Mother


 * "Trying to relieve traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to lose weight by loosening your belt " Anon


 * "It is the millions of acts by ordinary people that will eventually make a difference." Hamish McRae


 * "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away." Mahatma Gandhi


 * "Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell." Edward Abbey


 * "There are many ways to be poor, but in today's world not having the right kind of information represents a certain kind of poverty. As long as outsiders decide what is important and are in a position to ask all of the questions, we will never be able to solve our own problems. Without information we are nothing at all and have no power to understand things or to change our life. If Inuit society is to develop we must be able to collect and use information according to our own terms." A Nunavik Inuk


 * "Democracy is a promise that the excluded voices are needed to form a greater whole." Alan Briskin


 * "The poetry of the earth is never dead." John Keats


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