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“Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.”

Values Moral Involved Ethics Universal Currents Reciprocity

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”

People Whole Faces Desire Felt Emotion Groups Objects Flow Currents Rage Flames Torture Abstract Ecstasy Electric Hammers Hideous Lunatic Vindictiveness 1984 Important Electric Current

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.”

“The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?”

Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

“Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity.”

“And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.”

Men War Pain Young Serious Politician Men And Women Currents Young Man Injury Exhausted Diplomacy Avenues Every Avenue

Author:Tomas Young

“Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.”

Mean Use Energy Meditation Currents Guides Uplifting

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.”

“As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.”

Needs Mind Ideas Teaching Particular Connections Asking Mathematics Structure Currents Active Math Topics Familiarity Asking Questions Active Minds

Book:Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1

Source: Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1

“When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.”

Looks Doe Stills Energy Force Space Saws Player Sky Fields Stress Currents Chess Boards Curves Vans Static Magnet Magnetic Chess Players Still Life Mosaics Provence Magnetic Fields

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess”

World Mind States Player Pride Sorrow Tragedy Currents Chess State Of Mind Chess Players Fischer

Author:Frank Brady

“Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.”

Knows Mean Country Matter Facts Seems Used Opinion Cases Perception Argument Currents Used To Be Our Country New Things Entitled Tearing Apart

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.”

“These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.”

Two Body Age Form Given Five Changed Lovers Shapes Yoga Meetings Seven Currents Sexuality Your Body Transformed Electric Knots Chakra Tantra Two Lovers Electric Current Seven Chakras

Author:Rajneesh

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”

Challenges Progress Institutions Currents Conception Censorship Censoring Book Banning Progress In Life Supplanting

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.”

Ifs Body Light Together Used Energy Five Scientist Currents Deeper Your Body Visible Subtle Atoms Candle Electricity Bulbs Tantra

Author:Rajneesh

“Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.”

Progress Currents Speed Enthusiasm Engines Electric Electric Current Propeller

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.”

Source: Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History

“Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful”

People Made Matter Values Powerful Numbers Economy Havens Taste Economics Structure Currents Believer Justify Pretending Astrology Fervent

Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.”

Ideas Philosophy Today Past Political Evolution Taste Economics Oneself Currents Socialism Passing Passings Fallen Liberalism Inventing Frenzy Recourse Passing It

Author:Ralph Raico

“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.”

“Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.”

Years States Use Given Economy Economics Dollars Currents Russia Finance Iran Quarters Recycling Venezuela

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable...”

“.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.”

Ifs Should Humans Moments Science Spirituality Information Flow Notion Currents Cosmos Human Potential

Book:The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Source: The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

“Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred under purely natural circumstances. Until we can say precisely how much of the current global warming and greenhouse gas increase is the result of this normal temperature cycle, we will not be able to measure how much human activity has added to this natural trend, nor will we be able to predict whether there will be any lasting negative effects.”

“NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.”

Should Humans Becoming Evidence Climate Change Caught Currents Agency Collections Global Warming Caught Up Nasa Hysteria Scientific Evidence

Author:Walter Cunningham

“We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast”

Might Goal Chance Future Patience Entrepreneur Perseverance Currents Careful Stealing Appetite Be Careful Business Success Key To Success

Author:Jim Rohn

“The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important.”

“In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.”

May Long Important Running Language Source Climate Change Currents Debate Damage Global Warming Long Runs Precise Mislead Advocacy Replacements

Author:Richard Lindzen

“My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.”

People Reality Today Form Young Waiting Leader Steps Advice Politician Adults Finals Currents Steps Forward

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels”

Levels Climate Change Currents Gas Emissions Annuals Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Nicholas Stern

“According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot."”

Jobs House Force Doors Car Currents Smoking Pot Weed Tied Apartment Psychologist Anonymity Clinicals Randy Blindfolded Smoking Pot Bongs Clinical Psychologists

Author:Rand Paul

“With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts. It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books, delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.”

“Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.”

Want Years Age Military Constitution Prejudice Currents Voting Replacements Compulsory Military Service Voting Age

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.”

Inspiring Determine Currents Income Our Future Your Future Professionalism

Author:David Maister

“He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.”

Thinking Turns Force Fool Skills Intellectual Intelligence Currents

Author:Samuel Tuke

“Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.”

World May Christ Religious One Day Capitalism Historical Currents Mythology Socialism Communism Contrast Utopia Messiah Eschatology

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.”

Inspirational Soul Moving Joy Break Rivers Pressure Currents Your Soul Freshness

Author:Coleman Barks

“Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.”

Men Stills Remember Science Religion Knowledge Wave Currents Laughed Unseen Infancy Electrical

Author:Albert Einstein

“The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.”

Want Needs Ideas Lying Stuff Media Exercise Sells Currents Bunch Want Me Toys Passive Outrage Firing Moguls Media Control New Toys

Author:Richard Schickel

“It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.”

Source: The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws

“Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.”

Life Inspirational Trying Moving Fighting Attitude Inspirational Life Flow Currents Following Actresses Karma Resistance Producers African American Host Resisting Successful Women

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the air is uncharted, and he must therefore explore for himself the strange eddies and currents of the ever-changing sky in its many moods.”

“No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”

Ifs Men May Character Sides Moral Wall Ambition Currents Everlasting Boundless Sweeping Compact

Author:George Washington

“The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

World Needs Problem Might Principles Gone Genius Constitution Currents Static Adaptability

Author:William J. Brennan

“People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.”

People Trying Use Purpose Enjoy Focus Movement Adventure Skills Rivers Currents Abandon Have Faith Flexibility Rushing Swimmer

Book:Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

Source: Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

“In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.”

“There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.”

“The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were Black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures.”

Culture Language Term Interesting Violence Reader Standards Currents Receiving Translate Translations Uprooting Foreign Culture Standard English

Author:Lawrence Venuti