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“The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.”

Two Universe Three Space Eternal Aspect Absolutes Breaths Appearance Abstract Cycles Duration Disappearance

Book:The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

Source: The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

“Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.”

World Stills Two Country Government Secret Thirds Murder Prison Human Rights Committed Torture Officials Imprisonment Banned Impunity Disappearance

Author:Peter Benenson

“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”

Ends Moments Saws Transformation Flowering Disappearance

Author:Glen David Gold

“It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.”

World Heart Fall Left Differences Holes Disappearance

Book:Maggot Moon Adult Edition

Source: Maggot Moon Adult Edition

“Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.”

“I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”

America Black Moral Violence Crime Identity Normal Suicide Traditional Imitation Routes Extinction Revolt Hysterical Disappearance Moral Courage Exemplary

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“With the disappearance of the future, the only thing that remains in your hands is now. Then you can go deep into this now - whatsoever you are doing. You can be eating or dancing or making love to a woman or singing or digging a hole in the ground - whatsoever you are doing. This is the only time you have, why not do it totally? Why not celebrate it? Celebration and being total mean the same thing. You celebrate only when you are total in something, and when you are total in something you celebrate it.”

Mean Hands Eating Singing Remains Dancing Holes Celebrate Why Not Celebration Making Love Only Time Digging Doing You Disappearance Digging A Hole

Author:Rajneesh

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”

Hands Poet Pure Poetic Speakers Disappearance

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.”

Social Work Levels Crime Lows Consequence Organization Welfare Disappearance Dissolution Low Level Social Organization

Author:William Julius Wilson

“When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.”

Ifs Wells Persons Important Space Objects Disappear Absence Reminders Missing Someone Sculptors Disappearance

Author:Doris Salcedo

“The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.”

Black Conscious Regard Appearance Activism Nationalism Fierce Epic Heirs Disappearance Vengeful Black Nationalism

Author:George Elliott Clarke

“It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.”

Thinking Humans Might Loss Difficulty Appearance Witness Human Life Allowing Gifted Participation Liberating Disappearance

Author:David Whyte

“Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society