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given the way companies function, this change is only possible if the principles and interests guiding corporations shift from being centered on profit to being centered on the morality of interdependence, which means benefit (profit) to all the communities we and they share. And that movement relies on each company's stockholders beginning to deepen their practices of generosity to overcome the hungry-ghost mentality, because these stockholders happen to also be consumers. Thus consumers have to demand changes in the M.O. of the companies we collectively control. So, our practices of generosity and livelihood (in other words, consumption and production) are . . . well . . . connected. — Ethan Nichtern

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway,

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most. — Jim Whittaker

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union. — Michael Gove

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud. — Terry Tempest Williams

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. — E. E. Cummings

A child dragging bent useless legs is crawling up the hill outside the village. Nose to the stones, goat dung, and muddy trickles, she pulls herself along like a broken cricket. We falter, ashamed of our strong step, and noticing this, she gazes up, clear-eyed, without resentment - it seems much worse that she is pretty. In Bengal, GS says stiffly, beggars will break their children's knees to achieve this pitiable effect for business purposes: this is his way of expressing his distress. But the child that lies here at our boots is not a beggar; she is merely a child, staring in curiosity at tall, white strangers. I long to give her something - a new life? - yet am afraid to tamper with such dignity. And so I smile as best I can, and say "Namas-te!" "Good morning!" How absurd! And her voice follows as we go away, a small clear smiling voice - "Namas-te!" - a Sanskrit word for greeting and parting that means, "I salute you". — Peter Matthiessen

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. — Kenichi Fukui

The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away. — Michel Houellebecq

Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever ... Never quit. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'd do a really tasteful Playboy shoot, but I'd want at least 700,000 for it. — Liz McClarnon

To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost. — S. Fitts

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves. — Zora Neale Hurston

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors. — John Turturro

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West. — Martin Jacques