“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it” ThinkingHumansChildrenTwoAgeIndividualNumbersRaceTakenFiveGroupsMembersLogicEssenceIndependentFishesCertaintyUncertaintyHuman RaceApplesReasoningAppropriateRemarkableEntityAbstractionFeatsOntology Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.” PeopleTwoCountryGovernmentTogetherThreeSidesFiveIntegrityMembersIndependentPlusCompetenceCredibilitySixteenCommissionersProfessional Competence Author:Jose Ramos-Horta
“For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.” WantCountryMatterStrongNationsUnitedRiskVictoryMembersWeakOrganizationIndependentBlameStealingObjectivesServingSmallestUnited NationsHypocriticalScapegoatIndebted Author:Roméo Dallaire
“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.” PersonsPoliticalIndividualSocialCommunityUnitedMembersMassIndependentAcquireImmortalOrganismsPolitical Life Author:Kim Jong Il
“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.” IfsMaySometimesHappensFriendshipAliveLoversMembersRootsIndependentThings HappenCoalComes And GoesFamily Members Author:Joan Frank
“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.” MayArtLightCausesObjectsIgnoranceParticularSourceMembersUniqueIndependentNotionSanityIsolatedDetachedEnchantmentInexplicable Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
“The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.” WayCertainGrowthPartySituationStudyTeacherStudentsMembersThirdsIndependentImpactCompareClassroomOrganisationThird Parties Author:Wendy Kopp
“When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.” FilmFieldsDependsMembersIndependentWideAccessArtisticAppealsDeniedUnfairDistributionIndependent FilmPlaying Fields Author:Norman Jewison
“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.” EndsArtistCertainDecisionDealsGroupsWorstMembersMusicianAspectIndependentSakeCompromiseBest BusinessBusiness Decisions Author:Ziggy Marley
“People are very independent. And what I have seen with all the unions is that you have members who, regardless of who their union choose to endorse, ultimately want to exercise their own judgment and want to vote for the person they feel is best.” PeopleWantFeelsPersonsExerciseMembersJudgmentVoteIndependentUnions Author:Lucy Flores
“I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.” KnowsSometimesCharacterStrongNationsUnitedPsychologyMembersIndependentPassionateKingdomsIslandsSovereigntyGeographyDefenceUnited KingdomStrong Minded Author:David Cameron
“From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker who adjusted Marxist-Leninist ideas and tactics to what he perceived to be the concrete situation in Indochina.” IdeasPartySituationMembersIndependentCommunistThinkerConcreteTacticsMarxistCommunist PartyIndochina Author:William J. Duiker
“Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.” KindCountryAbilityPolicyMembersEuropeIndependentPursueCurrencyStrainJointsMonetaryEuroUnifiedSustainingMonetary PolicyFiscal Policy Author:Amity Shlaes