Sara Parkin quotes
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“Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'”
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“Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems”
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“What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'”
-- Sara Parkin
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“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
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“Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely”
Source : Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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