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“Sustainable growth, a phrase beloved by politicians, is an oxymoron. In a world of finite size, with limited resources, sustained growth of any material thing, such as a population or an economy, is not possible. Physical objects or processes cannot grow forever in a finite world. Understanding this simple fact is central to any understanding of sustainability.”
Eileen Crist, Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation

Jessica Francis Kane
“It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”
Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

“Technology tries to prevent us from asking deeper questions. The megatechnology society believes that there is a technological solution to every problem. This would be correct only if the world were a machine.”
Stephanie Mills, Turning Away from Technology

George Eliot
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot
“It flashed through her like the sudden apprehended solution of a problem, that all the miseries of her young life had come from fixing her heart on her own pleasure [...] and for the first time she saw the possibility of shifting the position from which she looked at the gratification of her own desires,—of taking her stand out of herself, and looking at her own life as an insignificant part of a divinely guided whole. [...] She sat in the deepening twilight forming plans of self-humiliation and entire devotedness; and in the ardor of new discovery, renunciation seemed to her an entrance into that satisfaction which she had so long been craving in vain. She had not perceived—how could she until she had lived longer?—the inmost truth of the old monk’s outpourings, that renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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