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“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.”

World Kind Sometimes Problem Seems Moving Space Behinds Half This World Elements Mass Europe Leaving New World Tourists Energetic Space Travel Old World

Author:Mary McCarthy

“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”

Thinking Giving Seems Stuff Behinds Pieces Building Elements Towns Structure Block Repeats Fabric Building Blocks

Author:Christopher Alexander

“There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.”

Self Passion Realizing Behinds Sacrifice Exercise Elements Glory Seeking Extremes Selfish Selfless Addict Self Sacrifice Renunciation Misers Abnegation Chasers

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”

World Matter Reality Spirit Lying Numbers Behinds Principles Elements Backgrounds Factors Realms Psychics Primal Archetype Jung

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.”

Want Used Artist Behinds Fronts Scene Elements Behind The Scenes

Author:Arthur Fogel

“There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.”

People Behinds Keys Elements Smart Management Great Men Visionaries Great Management

Author:Rob Dyrdek

“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”

Two Left Water Secret Behinds Shapes Elements Stones Crosses Primaries Desert Abundance Exposed Canvas Left Behind Rarity Vegetation Ferocity

Author:Craig Childs

“Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).”

World Writing Soul Dream Order Culture Behinds Awareness Ego Elements Ancient Aliens Civilized Transition Waking Display Secular Gang World Order Insidious Eerie

Author:Kenny Smith

“I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.”

Thinking Courses Interest Deals Behinds Wise Elements Labor Method Violent Organized Permit Decline Entitled Controversy Employers Settlement Laborers Organized Labor Duress

Author:William Howard Taft

“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”

Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”

World Needs Important Facts Able Wanted School Faces Left Voice Behinds Attention Careers Needed Prove Elements Smart Lifelong Posture Prove It Fooling Around Center Of Attention

Author:George Carlin

“Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.”

Should May Hard Done Government Age Behinds Doors Achieve Subjects Demand Elements Working It Diplomacy Bureaucrats Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.”

Source: The Princess Bride