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• Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

  Alan AtKisson

  Future, Vision, Sustainability

  Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

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• When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

  Frank Frazetta

  Art, Way, My Own

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• You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

  Rachel Roy

  Matter, Fit, Should

  "Man Repelling With Rachel Roy This Valentine's Day". Interview with Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Believe, Years, Missing

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• A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

  Philip Slater

  Coincidence, Decided

  Philip Elliot Slater (1977). “The wayward gate: science and the supernatural”

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• In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance.  Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Country, Art, Healing

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.218, Rowman Altamira

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• The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Light, People, Identity

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• We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two… We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Regret, Children, Numbers

  Presenting the Abortion Bill, sprs.parl.gov.sg. December 23, 1969.

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• Home-based businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in our economy, and that trend will only continue, as the age of the corporation, which began barely a century ago, now gives way to the age of the entrepreneur.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Home, Giving, Entrepreneur

  "Crisis or Opportunity – Your Business Magazine". www.paulzanepilzer.com. July 2006.

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• The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

  Max Levchin

  Important, Levels, Mobile

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

  Lisa Morgan

  Crazy, Climbing, Hiking

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Gale

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• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

  John Naisbitt

  Horse, Easier

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• I have a trend of my own.

  Andrei Platonov

  My Own

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

  Larry Hite

  Risk, Ifs

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• In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Church, Kind

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Author Says Messiah Could Be a Woman", 1989.

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• Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

  Jeff Abbott

  Writing, Trying, Fleeting

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• The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Two, Democracy, Deregulation

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

  Fritjof Capra

  Psychology, Intellectual, Culture

  "The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.

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• Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

  Edmund White

  Views, Years, Ideas

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.260, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Order, Law

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.44, Vintage

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• I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

  Alan Lightman

  Technology, Thinking, Reflection

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• There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Zero, World, Empirical Evidence

  "Is Global Warming a Sin?" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2007.

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• Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Religious, Political

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