“No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.” WorldIdeasWholeMotivationalMovingFightingStarsStepsBecomingGainsWhole WorldCowardMisfortunesSpheres Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.” WorldWellsMeanDoeBookEndsWholeOrderCoursesLanguageSexThis WorldBecomingGainsMake SenseTitlesThemeAdamSequenceVerbsAdam And EveNounsStasis Author:Gregory Orr
“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.” WorldStatesWould BeLyingWorstRevolutionBecomingExpectationsGainsRedFunctionIncludingTyrannyManagersIsolationElsewherePredictionsBureaucracyWorld Bank Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.” MenArtChoicesFriendshipWiseBecomingGainsElectionTheeJudgedVirtuousInferiorsBeing Wise Book:Miscellaneous works Source: Miscellaneous works