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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

“All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.”

World Sometimes Together Sky Elements Mass West South East Centre Frozen Rushing Hemisphere

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.”

Three Winning Given Levels Numbers Leader Elements Mass Raises Active Rely Small Numbers Uniting

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.”

“The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.”

Years Ideas Enough Dream Novel Grew Elements Mass Critical Lakes Critical Mass

Author:Kim Edwards

“We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.”

Ends Science Stars Planets Elements Mass Clouds Gas Galaxy Unstable Forged Stars And Planets

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.”

Way Water Fire Air Elements Mass Stones Weight Woods Proportion Bitterness Decay Burned Composition Worms Floats Dense Sap Ignite Moisture

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.”

Sometimes States Whole Individual Mistake Elements Mass Enthusiasm Contribution Making Mistakes Collectives Quantity Decline Insignificant Decrease Corrections

Author:Che Guevara

“The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.”

Energy Events Objects Elements Mass Patterns Elements Of Life

Author:Fritjof Capra

“We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights and especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient.”

People Believe May Government Evil Rights Citizens Republican Elements Mass Election Agents Ingredients Composition Egoism

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“I personally don't think of the music as being particularly dark, though many seem to disagree as I often have to answer that question. I try and make the Lustmord sound have a real mass and a tangible presence, which some choose to interpret as dark. It's an interesting distinction. Although there are dark elements interwoven within the whole, it's only one of many textures.”

Thinking Trying Real Whole Seems Sound Dark Answers Interesting Elements Mass Distinction Disagree Texture Tangible

Author:Brian Williams

“The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.”

Rocks Revolution Victory Elements Mass Built Finals

Author:Rosa Luxemburg