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• Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

  Marci Shimoff

  Numbers, Effort, Weight

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

  Seth Godin

  People, Important, Use

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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• When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Strong, Successful, Impact

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Numbers, Knowing

  "Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife". Book by Eben Alexander, October 23, 2012.

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• Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.
  
  If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

  Seth Godin

  Workout, Data, Decision

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• NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

  Micky Arison

  Vacation, Marketing, Stronger

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• What does the world need that you can provide?”
Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy
Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready
Internalize and share your social mission
Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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• Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, People, Support

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

  Paul Berg

  Interesting, Perspective, Design

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• In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

  Martin Sorrell

  Agency, Media, Creative

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• Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Flames, Mind

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• Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reading, Listening

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  What Matters, Empowering, Healthy

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• The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority

  David Miliband

  Mean, Oxygen, Water

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• Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  Tavis Smiley

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Space, Empty, Pops

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

  Neil Shubin

  Teeth, Firsts, Breasts

  Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.79, Vintage

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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