“They spell it “da Vinci” and pronounce it “da Vinchy”. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.” — Mark Twain
Lotte Jacobi: Albert Einstein, 1938
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Gubbi Goodu - A campaign to bring back sparrows to Bangalore
300k farmers hope for lawsuit against Monsanto
“What is reality? Everyone’s reality is different. For different perceptions of reality we need a different language. We like to think that the world is rational and precise and exactly how we see it, but something erupts in our reality which makes us sense that there’s more to the fabric of life. I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.” — Ben Okri
The groove
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“We must bring back into society a deeper sense of the purpose of living. The unhappiness in so many lives ought to tell us that success alone is not enough. Material success has brought us to a strange spiritual and moral bankruptcy.” — Ben Okri (October 2008)
“Above all, the new macro-economics will need to be ecologically and socially literate, ending the folly of separating economy from society and environment.” — Tim Jackson (in Prosperity without Growth)
Nice Table again
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