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The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#being #capital #companies #concentrated #corporations

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#change #claim #cross #even #everything

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#describe #equations #even #fire #into

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#basic #believe #broad #desire #everyone

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#black #black hole #blunder #destroyed #hole

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

#before #behavior #desired #habit #just

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#hardest #hearts #i #simple #softening

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. ↗