“When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.” TryingEyeSpeakAchieveUnionsGreat ThingsNeedlesThrough The EyesCamelsContainers Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.” HumansEndsNaturalRacePlansAchieveUniversalPhilosophicalUnionsWork OutHuman RaceCivicsContributing Book:Philosophical writings Source: Philosophical writings
“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.” FirstsCertainDarkTakenAchieveSacredUnionsCandidatesRitualBeatenMidnightGuruIntercourseCemeteryHashish Book:Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achievements. These alone count in life.” HardAchieveUnionsEndureSeparationLife And DeathSteadfast Author:Yoshida Shoin
“For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.” ProblemNationsNaturalPerfectLeaderRolesRightsAchieveCenturyKeysBecomingOne DayOvercomingSlaveryUnionsInspiredCivil RightsHopefullyConceptionProtectedNatural DeathAbolishing Slavery Author:Marco Rubio
“In the European Union, a fleet average of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer will be permitted in 2020. This corresponds to fuel consumption of about four liters (per 100 kilometers; about 59 mpg). We have to continue reducing the fuel consumption of our vehicles and offer hybrid and electric vehicles, or else we will be unable to achieve these values.” ValuesFourAchieveOffersUnionsAverageFuelVehicleElectricConsumptionReducingEuropean UnionHybridCo2Electric Vehicles Author:Norbert Reithofer
“What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.” StatesPowerfulAchieveUnionsCorruptionCorporationsMiners Author:Mother Jones
“That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.” GivingAmericaAchieveGeniusTomorrowUnionsTrue Genius Author:Barack Obama
“In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.” IfsThinkingWayWould BeLevelsAchieveCivilizationAchievementEuropeUnionsWesternCivilizedTurkeysEuropean UnionTurkishWestern EuropeUncivilized Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.” WaySaidCountryPurposeGoalCommunityWealthClassStreetsMiddleAchieveWallReturnOrganizationUnionsMiddle ClassStolenRedistribution Of Wealth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.” GivingIdeasStatesUseGivenLeaderAchieveMembersIndiaUnionsSouthWesternFrancePermanentGermanySeatsAbandonSouth AfricaRepresentationTurkeysIndonesiaEffectivenessEuropean UnionScrapBrazilMembershipLegitimacyVetoRotating Author:Richard A. Falk