Lauri Markkanen Quotes & Sayings

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person — Richelle Mead

The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip. — Robert Peary

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. — John Dewey

What Profiteth It A Kingdom If The Oxen Be Deflated?' - Riddles II, v3 — Terry Pratchett

Sustainability is today's freedom crusade, because the next generation will not live free - will not have the freedom to pursue its economic dreams or to delight in all that nature has to offer - if our approach to the financial world and the natural are not grounded in sustainable values. That lack of sustainability will constrict everything in our lives. It will limit everything we might want to do. Unless we become less dependent on hydrocarbons, and unless we find a balance between the need for markets to be free enough to reward innovation and risk-taking but not so free as to reward recklessness that can destabilize the whole global economy, our lives will be reduced, redacted, and restricted. We will be overwhelmed by all the toxic assets we will produce in the Market and in Mother Nature. It will feel worse than had the Soviet Union won the Cold War, because we and our children will be enslaved by our financial debts and constricted by our ecological debts. — Thomas L. Friedman

Ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And — Michael J. Sandel