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Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

by Tim Jackson

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Jan 31, 2025 08:42AM

“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.
It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
― Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

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“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

tags: death, dogs, humor, war

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“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. But if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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