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Education is one of most important areas that we have to improve upon if we expect to survive or move forward as a society.
Do not fear what you do not know, for curiosity is one of the greatest gifts we have.
Education is the first line of defense in investing in the future …
At our current stage of development we need our current systems of barter and trade economic systems to supply livelihood to be stable. We need ecological stability while at the same time supplying people with the opportunity of supplying themselves, families and societies with a livelihood. …
It is also important that we maintain the resources upon which our economic livelihood is reliant.
Those who will deplete or contaminate the community’s shared resources must be required to provide restitution that maintains the average quality of life and repairs the damage they created.
We need to create environmental stability and economic security that are in support of one another. We need both, and it is irresponsible to sacrifice one for the other.
An adjustment to our lifestyle does not necessarily mean giving up any of our modern conveniences, but changes in the ways in which we access those conveniences.
In our zeal to conquer the environment around us for survival, we forgot the obvious solution: to adapt to our surroundings.
We are born to adapt and adjust. We are a very adaptive species.
A lack of natural resources has always led to social instability.
A healthy environment, physical or otherwise, is essential for the survival of our species. …
The current understandings of the laws of nature are only hypotheses based on information we have thus far.
The highly improbable implies probability.
Frightened of the inevitable, a question that one would expect hoping to prolong the foreseeable.
The most dangerous are those who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Beliefs that have kept us civilized for generations are under attack. We can’t simply ask to change those beliefs. It is chaos and change that most civilizations fear.
… Freedom must be a two-way street. How can we expect others to receive freedom when we ourselves are unable to give freedom to others?
If people are denied the freedom to make their own decisions, it causes discontentment and stress resulting in violence and often displacement of anger onto others.
Humans without freedom are as animals caught in a trap; they will sacrifice part of themselves to be free.
People without freedom will die inside.
It is important to remember that those with new or different ideas may have an important insight that others may have overlooked. …
It is best not to remember the man or the words, but the ideas.
Not standing up for your freedom puts all freedoms in jeopardy. …
If we try to discount or silence other people’s ideas because we think they are not promoting democracy, then we ourselves are not promoting democracy. Yet, we must still watch them closely.
Just plain acceptance, even if we don’t agree — we all have the right to exist.