Tikkun olam (Hebrew: םלוע ןוקית) literally translated as “repair of the world,” alternatively meaning “construction for eternity”). Tikkun olam is a concept in Judaism that has been taken to mean aspiration towards actions and behaviors
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“Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
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“We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. They may be widely separated both in space and time. To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
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