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“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”
― How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
― How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”
― Light at the Edge of the World
― Light at the Edge of the World
“Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.”
― How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
― How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
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