Bill Mollison Quotes
You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
Quotes to Explore
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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
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Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.
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I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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Our sale is not a sale but an event, ... We're going about one a minute to beat the darkness and get to the barbecue.
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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If you love animals, please don't eat them.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from Chris Nolan's perspective makes you better.
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We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.
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I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.
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You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
