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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. - Wendell Berry

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort or esteem but games worth playing. - [|Thomas Szasz]

Anything should be studied not by what it is in itself, but by its relationship to other things. - Gregory Bateson

There is no travel without learning and no learning without travel. - [|Michel Serres]

The street is a theater, admission free. - [|Henri Cartier-Bresson]

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African Proverb

The language of American politics is about to undergo a huge change and the only question is whether leadership will catch up with that change in language and understanding or whether the gulf will grow. - Bruce Shapiro, [|2011 in Review]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. - Heraclitus

You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford

It's fine to have recollections of the past but wisdom comes from being able to prepare opportunities for the future. - Te Wharehuia Milroy, [|Te ahi kaa]

Facts are like cobblestones that can lead in many directions. - [|Timothy Garton Ash], [|Facts are subversive]

Fact still means for us literally 'a thing done' and fiction never has lost its meaning of 'a thing made.' But in what sense do things done or things made partake of truth or reality? A thing done has no real existence once it has been done. A thing made, on the other hand, exists until it decays or is destroyed. - [|Robert Scholes], Elements of fiction

It's harder to rebuild relations than build them. - Conversation

Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)

The next time you get asked to speak for free to an audience who are, let’s face it, ‘in it for the money’, politely say ‘No thanks’, and smartly step aside so you won’t be killed in the rush by all the wannabes thundering in to take your place. - Darrel Rowse, [|Speak at my conference ... for free?]

I noticed that I hardly listened to the radio anymore and asked myself why. Radio treats listeners as a passive audience but I wanted to design a radio that would view the audience as participating forces in the media itself. [|Element Radio] enables the user to influence what they are listening to. - Mark Law, quoted in [|Radio for all the senses]

Each time we take a long-haul flight, we are personally responsible for emitting several tonnes of carbon dioxide – which will remain in the atmosphere for a century of more, warming the planet all the time, and potentially contributing to global warming so disastrous that it undoubtedly infringes the rights of future unborn generations to life and property. We would all instinctively condemn the terrorist planting the time bomb. But the climate-change time bomb we help plant every time we step on a plane is still not recognised by most people – least of all the aviation industry – as a moral issue at all. - Mark Lynas: [|Do you care about your children? Then stop flying]

The saying that 'Ko te kai a te rangatira, he korero' (The food of rangatira is speech) is as relevant today as it ever was, but the speech is now different. It is written, it is twittered, it is all over the place, but the key is in the words, the ability to use the words and the respect that people gain so that their words are listened to. - Moana Jackson, [|Ideas]

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. - John Muir

Reduce carbon emissions. Walk to the pub. - Australia beer promotion, 2009

Try this career choice standard on for size. Will this choice allow me to spend the greatest amount of time - Jonathan Fields, [|Firefly Manifesto Remixed] If you want to change the mind of a politician, then you must first change the minds of their voters. Having a quiet chat with the Minister, or even the Prime Minister, will have little effect if the electorate is uncertain or opposed. The same applies particularly to global issues. If you want to change the prevailing do nothing attitudes of the majority of the world's governments towards the enormous issues that confront us, you must first change the mindset of the human race at large. - Julian Cribb, [|The case of open science]
 * Absorbed in activities and relationships that fill me up
 * While surrounding myself with people I cannot get enough of, and
 * Earning enough to live comfortably in the world?

It is better to have a bigger purpose and some firm beliefs to guide you, than it is to have a plan. - Paul Isakson, [|How to wander with purpose]

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. - Joseph Campbell

Conservation geography should be a geographical approach to conservation that cuts across artificial boundaries separating what is natural from what is cultural in the landscape. - Mark Bonta, Conservation Geography in Honduras

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor

I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control. - Charles Bowden

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. - Winston Churchill

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but those most adaptive to change. - Charles Darwin

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. - Goethe

If you live every day of your life as if you are on a wonderful journey through an endlessly fascinating, strange land -- you are. (Si vives cada día de tu vida como si estuvieras en un maravilloso viaje a través de una extraña, e infinitamente fascinante tierra --- entonces así es.) – Michael Kaye, Costa Rica Expeditions

If you're focused on the result, you're not paying attention to the process. - Conversation

Attention is scarce -- more valuable than cash and rarer than gold. When you get some, embrace it and find out how to get more. - Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, [|Trust Economies]

Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story. - [|afriproverbs]

Devices work better when they're constantly connected. Human brings work better when we're intermittently disconnected. - Genevieve Bell, [|The Value of Boredom]

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.- Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

Whoever believes in continuous growth in a finite world is either mad or an economist. - Kenneth E. Boulding, cited by David Attenborough, [|People and Planet]

People can live their whole lives without love, and still live, and still function. And the same is true of wilderness in that not having known, they don’t know what they’ve missed or what they have lost. It actually doesn’t mean anything until you’ve experienced it yourself.” - Peter Dombrovskis, Australia’s most celebrated wilderness photographer,, Wildness documentary, 2003, [|cited by Tom Walter]

The more like ourselves we become, the odder we become. This is most obvious in people whom society no longer keeps in line; the eccentricity of the very rich or of castaways. - Louise Adler, cited in Player One

The environmentalism I recognise is a challenge to power. It confronts a system which allows a handful of people to dominate our lives and capture our resources. The fame, the extreme wealth, the disproportionate influence celebrated by power lists stand in opposition to the values and principles that green thinking espouses. - [|Eco power lists: Fatuous, invidious and misrepresentative]

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking. - George Patton

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope. - [|Ralph Waldo Emerson]

For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. - James Hillman

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

A guy who makes a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair. - The Social Network

Australia’s tourism future will be stronger if we fully recognise and capitalise on our fundamental tourism assets. We have a unique Indigenous culture – the oldest continuous Indigenous culture on the planet; distinctive landscapes, flora and fauna; sophisticated cities and regions that integrate a Western heritage with eastern cultures, and a reputation for diverse, interesting and friendly people.- [|National Long-term Tourism Strategy: Industry Priorities for the Australian Government]

When the souls of my shoes wear out I'll be back on my feet again. - Hugh Lunn, [|Australia's lost lingo]

The decision not to allow development on the mountains that ring the city means that many of the 357,000 people who live in Canberra can look up from a suburban street and see a hill covered in gum trees. It also means that Canberra is a bird-watcher's paradise, with pairs of rosellas and king parrots, not to mention squadrons of cockatoos and galahs. And if you get through Spring without being dive-bombed by a magpie, you're doing well. - Andrew Leigh, [|Canberra is the Best City in Australia]

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato

The measure by which we should test our laws and our institutions is to ask how they work for the poor the marginalized and the culturally distinct. It's never enough that they work well for the rich well educated members of the dominant culture. Larissa Behrendt, [|Perils, Real or Imagined] (2005)

Building genuine partnerships with Aboriginal people isn't just about benefiting indigenous Australians. Perhaps non-Aboriginal Australia can learn from a people who have survived 60,000 years on this harsh continent. We will then be on the way to developing an equal partnership that makes Aboriginal health 'everyone's business'. Don't be put off if you are unsure how to proceed. Those ten women showed me, in a way I'll never forget, that you don't have to know the answers. You don't even have to know the questions. What you need to do for successful consultation is to know how to build trust, show respect, listen and not be hurried. - Anthony Hillin, [|Walking the path together]

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Carl Jung

We know what we are, but not what we might be. - William Shakespeare, also used for the mobile library in Victoria, Australia, cited in [|Return to Marysville]

This old world is a new world and a bold world for me - [|Nina Simone]

The buses pull up and out they all get, wander around for five minutes, and then off they go again. How can you show someone thousands of years of history and culture in five minutes? - Jonathan Nadji, cited in http://www.monolith.com.au/kakadu/kakadu.html

Shower praise on your advocates. - Steve Bridger, [|Putting People at the Heart]

Tourism is like a fire you can cook you meal on it or it can burn your house down. - Asian proverb

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All these people who worry about eco-chambers are just listening to themselves. - Jay Rosen, [|Homophily and the digital 'echo-chamber]

We now know that students would rather ask another student for help before they ask a teacher, that's the normal behaviour. But we don't formalise that. Kids just do that on their own, after school. So I show an example today of one teacher in Los Angeles who's a Math teacher, where students in his classroom had designed tutorials across the curriculum available on one YouTube-like website. So that the children, in their own voice, can create tutorials that actually have more of an impact than the teacher teaching. In my country, we have these things called one-room schoolhouses that come out of the 1800s, where one teacher taught every subject, 8 grades. And the only way to do that is to organise it so that kids teach kids. And the research on that model to this day, shows that one-room schoolhouses get better standardised test scores than classrooms where the teacher delivers everything. So we know historically it's been a good idea. The irony is we've wiped out, now in a sense we have these new tools, so we're going back to a model that we got rid of, and revisiting and re-engineering it with these new tools. When every kid has a laptop and you have them at home as well as at school, it certainly can be an isolating experience. Or you can actually get kids communicating with one another outside their own circle of friends. Because when you don't see them face to face, you might we willing to share and ask questions, even ask for help, that you would never ask face to face. Then when you come back to school there's a stronger sense of community. So it's not one or the other. The trick for a teacher in managing this is to create challenges on the web for kids to collaborate, that lead to more social interaction rather than less. - Alan November, [|The Digital Classroom]

Soy los tweets que he leído - Ron Mader [|on twitter]

Soy los libros que he leído - Andrés Henestrosa

I will be quiet now because I am a man. - Conversation

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. - Henry Ford.

You can't grow wealthy if you have treated your relatives right. - Navajo saying

Make sure people can see the process. They need something which says yes, you did influence the process. - Alan Cox, [|US Now]

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. - Julian of Norwich

Students today are often immersed in an environment where they learn subjects that have truth and beauty embedded in them, but the way they are taught is compartmentalized so that truth and beauty are not always evident. - David Bolinsky, [|David Bolinsky animates a cell]

No matter how lazy you feel, you're not intrinsically doing nothing. - David Bolinsky, [|David Bolinsky animates a cell]

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. - Lucretius

At this stage of the game you need to be consistent and keep up to your mates. - [|Virtual Rugby]

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. - Clay Shirky, cited online [|The Technium]

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - [|La Rochefoucauld]

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me. //-// [|Katherine Mansfield]

Virtus sola nobilitas (virtue is the only nobility) - [|Sir Charles Nicholson]

If you live every day of your life as if you are on a wonderful journey through an endlessly fascinating, strange land -- you are. - [|Michael Kaye]

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. - Marcel Proust

You should dig a well before you are thirsty. - Chinese proverb

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom. Intimacy fails not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. - James Hillman

Let us be lavish with praise. Nothing belongs to us. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even //imagining// a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer alternatives to it. Why is it so beyond us to conceive of a different set of arrangements to our common advantage? - [|Tony Judt], [|What is living and what is dead in social democracy]

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - Buckminster Fuller

More money is corruptly remitted from Africa each year to Western bank accounts than the whole of the Western community gives to Africa in aid. Imagine the difference it would make therefore if we made Western banks accountable for the corrupt accounts. - [|Our Place in the World - Radio New Zealand]

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