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“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

Ifs Different Seems Certain Realizing Space Levels Building Elements Ultimate Towns Endless Block Variety Combination Constituents Building Blocks Puzzling Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.”

Needs Long Elements Ultimate Treated Kitchen Manipulation Ingredients Italian Polish Sauce Refined Intricate

Author:Marcella Hazan

“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

Ends Community Struggle Creation Elements Ultimate Meaningful Resistance Beloved Nonviolence Reconciliation Beloved Community

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.”

Mind Humans Happens Faith United Special Movement Personality Elements Concern Ultimate Function Human Mind Personal Life Sections

Author:Paul Tillich

“I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

People Way Made Justice Cities Divine Sorrow Elements Eternal Ultimate Sacred Moved Raised Intellect Abandon Architect Woe Omnipotence Forsaken

Book:The inferno

Source: The inferno

“The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.”

Order Divine Elements Ultimate Representatives Pope Medieval Binding Subordination Divine Will

Author:Irving Babbitt

“What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?”

Source: How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church

“Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.”

Whole Elements Intellectual Ultimate Harmony Sensuous

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.”

People Mean Political Culture Social Goal Middle Essentials Elements Diversity Ultimate East Liberation Middle East Ultimate Goal North Africa

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.”

Thinking Kind Song Chance Space Elements Standards Performances Ultimate Exciting Various Versions Manifestation Multiple Improvisation Sacredness

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.”