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“Thrivability emerges from each of us holding the persistent intention to be generative: that is to say, to create more value than we consume.”
― Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World That Works
― Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World That Works
“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
“Inside the KGB offices, staff members were busy burning all the files. Putin later stated, “We burned so much stuff that the furnace exploded.”46 He recounts that despite the local office’s efforts to get the Soviet military to come to their rescue, and in general to defend their positions in East Germany, “Moscow was silent. . . . I only really regretted that the Soviet Union had lost its position in Europe, although intellectually I understood that a position built on walls . . . cannot last. But I wanted something different to rise in its place. And nothing different was proposed. That’s what hurt. They just dropped everything and went away. . . . We would have avoided a lot of problems if the Soviets had not made such a hasty exit from Eastern Europe.”
― Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
― Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.”48”
― Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
― Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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