Killing Hope by William Blum – U.S. Military Interventions
“Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”
William Blum
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The Theory of Collective Memory in Nature by Rupert Sheldrake
“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Morphic Resonance and Influence through Thoughts
“What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake Quote on New Art Forms and Morphic Fields
“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can’t make sense of it. Then, if it’s around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there’s a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Government Interventions in the Market
“Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.”
Ludwig von Mises
Stella McCartney Quote on Animal Consumption and Sustainability
“The consumption of animals – whether you’re wearing them or eating them – is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don’t even get eaten. And there’s over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.”
Stella McCartney
Thomas Kuhn on Paradigm Shifts and Reality
“The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”
Thomas Kuhn
“All Life Is Problem Solving” – Karl Popper
“All life is problem solving”
Karl Popper
Size Makes You Fragile – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It’s the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it’ll be fine. Size makes you fragile.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Chris Hedges on Rage, Politics and Working People
“Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards liberals, who speak in a very hypocritical language about caring for their interests and yet support institutions that carry out an assault against working men and women.”
Chris Hedges