# Today's Quotes
Quotes for December 1
Quotes
"Slowly, it came into focus. This small web of people keeping one another afloat. All these miniscule interactions—a friendly wave, a pencil sketch, some plastic beads strung up a nylon cord—they might not look like much from the outside, but for the people caught inside that web? They might be everything, the very tethers that keep one bound to this planet." (Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist)
"high inequality is associated with higher rates of crime, greater risk of stress-related illness, and greater political polarization. These problems degrade the quality of life for everyone, including the affluent. This may be why people are happier in more equal places even after adjusting for their individual incomes." (Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder)
"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." (Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People)
"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by." (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters From a Stoic)
Systems Quotes for Sunday.
"Second, systems thinking catalyzes collaboration because people learn how they collectively create the unsatisfying results they experience." (David Peter Stroh, Systems Thinking for Social Change)
"a frequent issue is the highly linear logic, which suggests the world is much simpler and more predictable than in fact it is:" (Ben Ramalingam, Aid on the Edge of Chaos)
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