The document is a collection of quotes and passages that encourage mobilizing and engaging the creative intelligence of all people. It discusses themes of building a shared future together as one world and one civilization made up of seven billion human building blocks. The quotes provide perspectives on finding purpose, making contributions, and transforming challenges into opportunities through creativity.

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Here’s a selection of provocative
insights, intriguing perspectives, and
alternative proposals brought together
to encourage and expand ongoing
public and global conversations about
the modern crises
and, specifically, to mobilize and
engage the creative intelligence of all
people in

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36. “ It is better to
light one candle
than to curse the
darkness.”
-Christopher
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“It is the greenness of every tree
that makes the whole forest green.”
-Jack Forem

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“Building the Future
is everyone’s
business, because
everyone is going
to live there.”
-August Thayer
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“Each year sees new records set in
almost every field. Better songs can
be written … more beautiful
paintings can be painted. Someone is
going to do these things.
Why should not YOU be the one to
do some of them?”
-Dorothea Kopplin

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“Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the
rest.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Each unit of nature has its special
work to do and each performs its
function to perfection in accordance
with the laws of the universe. So also
human beings, each has a distinct
contribution to make.
Be what you were intended to be.
Give what you OUGHT to give.”
-Douglas Malloch

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“The ecological crisis is forcing us to face
the ultimate questions of life’s meaning.
Who are we? Where are we going? What
should we do? Our ability to make this
transformation in the next few decades
will determine whether they are the first
joyful moments in mankind’s greatest
and most exciting hour or the last few
minutes in our ultimate tragedy.”
-G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

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“If it ‘s going to be,
it’s up to me.”
-Robert H. Schuller
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“Live for something, have a
purpose
And that purpose keep in view;
Drifting like a helmless vessel,
Thou cans’t ne’er to life be
true.”

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