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“One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.”

“To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

Feels Should Mean Might Beautiful Grows Cutting Elements Negative Roots Difficulty Plant Arise Stem Embarrassed Choke

Author:Alain de Botton

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

Reason Language Elements Negative Organization Importance Critical Vehicle Discourse Rationality Transcendent Unified Coordination Subordination

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

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

“Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.”

May Important Form Elements Standards Negative Scientist Asking Patterns Finished Reactions Complexity Perpetual Novelty Interacting Negative Reactions

Author:W. Brian Arthur

“The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.”

Challenges Church Elements Negative Materialism Individualism Superstitions Rugged Hedonism Utilitarianism Rugged Individualism

Author:Francis Arinze

“Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.”

Should Mean Reality Literature Revolution Elements Negative Critical Revolutionary

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lessens, even corrupts him. The mission of schools is to develop a sense of truth, of what is good and beautiful. And this occurs through a rich path made up of many ingredients. This is why there are so many subjects - because development is the results of different elements that act together and stimulate intelligence, knowledge, the emotions, the body, and so on.”

Persons Made Different Body School Together Beautiful Grows Results Emotion Path Rich Subjects Development Elements Negative Missions Ingredients

Author:Pope Francis

“Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.”

Want Difficult Deals Achieve Missing Keys Elements Anxiety Areas Negative Calm Mood Overwhelmed Being Overwhelmed

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.”

Ifs Way Play Film Worry Pieces Balance Elements Negative Aspect Stronger Add Best Way Villain

Author:Alec Baldwin

“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Matter Reason Evil Views Principles Goodness Elements Highest Negative Stronger Unity Theology Surprising Say Anything Controversial

Author:Peter Adamson