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To solve the future, we must save the past. My simple rule of thumb, then, is this: when you cut down a tree, what you make from it should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The maintenance of oneself is a shifting activity, as one’s circumstances change and one’s experience accumulates; fidelity to oneself, as in being honest about one’s faults, ought to be constant, no matter where or what age one is.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
De re valuation places deeper restrictions on the possibility of substitution without loss. It is the particular object that is valued, not simply whatever object falls under a description.
Life Beyond Capital
John O'Neill
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