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Existence

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

- Donella Meadows

Quote of the Day

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Donella Meadows

Jury Job

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

- Donella Meadows

Politicians

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

- Donella Meadows

Climate

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

- Donella Meadows

Listening

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

- Donella Meadows

Existence

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

- Donella Meadows

Change

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

- Donella Meadows

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

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The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

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