Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWNOne-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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