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“The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.”

Has Beens Art Made Different Steps Style Painting Evolution Ideals Different Styles

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.”

Men Humans Human Beings Evolution Computer Ideals Essence Creator Liberated Completion Archetype

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.”

Way Want Mind Use Energy Technology Produce Evolution Higher Diversity Ideals Complexes Rate Complexity Organisms Expanding Density Specialization Energy Use

Author:Kevin Kelly

“I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.”

Should Believe Humans Ends Facts Opportunity I Believe Justice Ability Evolution Equal Ideals Absolutes Injustice Abstract Equal Opportunity Pinnacle Rebound Equalizer Equal Justice

Author:Frank Herbert

“There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.”

Form Values Evolution Models Built Ideals Core Stable Family Life Family Values Core Values Bedrock Showcase Future Society

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.”

Made Evolution Ideals Available Engineers Components Jury Rigged Orchids

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”

Science Evolution Ideals Climbing Mud

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.”

May Whole Progress Evolution Ideals Whole Life Chosen Definite Latent

Book:Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe

Source: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe

“I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.”

Ifs Years Whole Desire Process Understanding Change Produce Personality Evolution Taste Ideals Who You Are Great Men Static

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.”

Together Spiritual Order Force Quality Evolution Balance Ideals Description Nurture Wizards

Book:The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life

Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life