I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.

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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

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Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

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The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

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Only an educated and informed people will be a free people. ― John F. Kennedy

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It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ― Oscar Wilde

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