The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

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Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

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Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. ― Barbara Barrington Jones

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My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. - Justin Cartwright

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. — Benjamin Spock

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You make up the best memories I have. -- Kanye West

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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.― Arthur Conan Doyle

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