The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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