“We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.” LongEndsHelpingOur LivesSourceDependsCaringHelping OthersStability Author:Stephen G. Post
“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.” EndsQualityWonderPrinciplesSourceCuriosityConnectedSatisfiedRationalIdiotPiety Book:Sermons Source: Sermons
“The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.” WayGivingEndsUseEnergySourceOilGasDependenceGasolineGallonsGas PricesAlternative Energy Author:Al Gore
“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.” IfsWayTryingLittlesIdeasEndsWould BeFallProcessCasesSourceKeysBalanceCodePensArtificial IntelligenceArtificialExplosionsAccelerateRewritingTippingTiltTipping Point Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.” HumansWellsIdeasEndsSocialCommonDemocracyJourneyExpressionSourceDrinkEssentialsEthicsCrowdsHeatHuman ExperienceIdentificationDraught Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.” WorldGivingHas BeensEndsSelfStatesEarthAmericaCultureBornSimpleUnitedKnownUnited StatesProgressBloodCenturySourceRevolutionEqualConceptsIdealsAround The WorldBordersEmpiresDedicatedShedStereotypeCrude Author:Barack Obama
“Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.” MayIdeasEndsRunningBeliefEnergySourceBatteriesClip Author:J. M. Coetzee
“My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source” FeelsEndsUseProblemBigsDiesGrowsSourceStructureSelfishLoyaltyCorporateBizarreVirusesBig Problems Author:Thom Yorke