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In yourself right now is the only place you’ve got

By Erik Curren | July 31, 2012

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Most of my friends in the environmental community and the Transition movement are big fans of the value of interdependence. They'd surely agree with President Obama when he recently said, "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own...The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Barack Obama, Flannery O'Connor, Khalil Gibran, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, self-reliance, simple living

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