Sustaining Quotes - Page 5

• Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Healing, Keys, Diversity

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Real

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• The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

  Matthew Arnold

  Found, Best Poetry

  Essays in Criticism Second Series, "The Study of Poetry" (1888)

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• Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  David W. Orr

  Growing Up, Giving, Humanity

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• War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Mean, Evil

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• And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Requirements, Norm

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.71, M.E. Sharpe

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• It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

  Vanna Bonta

  Thinking, Humanity, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space", August 1, 2006.

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• At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

  Jaron Lanier

  Self, People, Giving

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• Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

  Jean Gebser

  Able, Potency, Realms

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, People, Decision

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• It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Effort, Sound, Enthusiasm

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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for Robert De Niro there's Al Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Mountain, Actors, Scrutiny

  "Come February, the world will be sick of my face". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspirational, Time, Clear Goals

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Inspirational, Years, My Best Friend

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Sweet, Blood, Forever

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• The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, World, Ends

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

  John Cho

  Careers, Interesting, Difficult

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Identity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

  Anthony Giddens

  Health, Risk, Psychological

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

  Carre Otis

  Believe, Progress, Made

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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