#mental

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#change #change the world #citizens #committed #doubt

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#destroy #environment #society #won

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy. ↗

— James Meade

#discussions #drafts #employment #government #governmental

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#climate #could #courageous #enormously #help

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#communicate #different #existence #hardly #intrinsic

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believe #endgame #fundamentally #go #happiness

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#dragging #ill #mentally #position #world

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#experimental #fraternity #moreover #must #new

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. ↗

— John Moody

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