A Quote by Michael Crichton

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

Michael Crichton

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Michael Crichton
American - Author
October 23, 1942 - November 4, 2008

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Pierre Reverdy

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Herbert Spencer

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Greg Lake

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Carroll Quigley

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Todd Haynes

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Mairead Corrigan

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Betty Eadie

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Kenny Smith

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John Rawls

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Paul Hawken

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

Eliphas Levi

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Kysa Johnson

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