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“Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the intricate world of cells, examining their role in biological processes and their importance in the study of life sciences. The essays cover a range of topics, from the fundamental functions of cells to their implications in medical research and evolutionary biology. more

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Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas was a renowned American physician, writer, and scientist. Born on November 25, 1913, and died on December 3, 1993. He was known for his contributions to medicine and scientific writing, serving as the director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. more

“Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.”

Humans Has Beens Light Individual Society Fine Circumstances Achievement Aim Terrorism Permanent Realised Civilisation Antithesis Civilised

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.”

“Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.”

Action Individual Results Steps Society Conditions Advantage Labor Universal Improvement Peaceful Division Substitutes Cooperation Isolated Every Step Division Of Labor

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.”

Men Humans Two Ideas Social Sound Ability Society Economic Theory Depends Intellectual Majority Factors Ideology Outstanding Human Society Flowering Economic Theory

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.”

Natural Society Members Inevitable Serving Phenomenon Scarcity Natural Phenomena

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.”

Thinking Men Humans Doe Individual Society Modern Evolution Drink Achievement Reasoning Subtle Primitive Naive Modern Science Primitive Man

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

Source: Society Of The Spectacle

“Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface”

Eye Society Surface Grass Delighted Lawns Velvet Roughness

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.”

World Way Age Force Economy Feet Information Moved New World Gathering New World Order World Order Global Economy Information Age

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998

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