Jan Lynch

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
― Emerson

“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
― Shirley Chisholm

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature