QUOTE A DAY - May 3, 2016

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
Even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
--Mary Anne Radmacher

In my final year, my approval ratings keep going up. The last time I was this high, I was trying to decide on my major.
--Barack Obama, at the Press Dinner

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its key institutions - rearranges itself...Fifty years later, there is a new world, and people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived...We are currently living through such a time.
--Peter Drucker, cited in "Managing In Great Times Of Change" (1995)


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The collapse of urban cultures is an event much more frequent than most observers realize. Often, collapse is well underway before societal elites become aware of it, leading to scenes of leaders responding retroactively and ineffectively as their society collapses around them.
--Sander Vander Leeuw, Archaeologist, 1997

Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.
--Lao Tzu

[T]he pundits are all missing the point: the Trump-Sanders phenomenon signals an American oligarchy on the brink of a civilization-threatening collapse.
--Sally Goerner, Evonomics


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

ANSWER: Douglas Horton

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