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If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
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Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
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What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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