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“When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.”

Knows Mind Two Together Science Order Half Subjects Genius Conversation Sentences Breathe Atmosphere Remarkable Broads Transition Lungs Kindred Allusion Two Minds

Author:William James

“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.”

“The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.”

“A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.”

Source: The Rambler

“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”

“New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.”

“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.”

Has Beens Problem Imagination Cases Stage Design Evolution Majors Evidence Accounts Absence Transition Constructs Inability Fossils Persistent Creationism Nagging Paleontology

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.”

Made Science Becoming Balance Periods Research Chemistry Transition Chemicals Indispensable Measurement Genetics Exact Sciences

Author:Wilhelm Johannsen

“With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons. Such a star may possess a very small radius and an extremely high density. As neutrons can be packed much more closely than ordinary nuclei and electrons, the gravitational packing energy in a cold neutron star may become very large, and under certain conditions may far exceed the ordinary nuclear packing fractions.”

May Science Certain Energy Stars Views Conditions Theory Cold Ordinary Nuclear Transition Reserves Exceed Fractions Electrons Packing Density Nucleus Radius Supernova Neutrons

Author:Fritz Zwicky

“...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.”

“...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution. Hence, in order not to err in policy, one must be a revolutionary, not a reformist.”

Order Class Policy Communication Revolution Capitalism Socialism Reform Liberation Revolutionary Transition Capitalist Working Class Yoke Qualitative

Author:J. Stalin

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

“Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.”

Years Mind Care Running Lasts Games Balls Revenge Defense Transition Last Year Playing Defense

Author:Karl Hobbs

“People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.”

People Looks Long Eye Periods Fruit Maturity Transition Sympathetic Disregard Ripening

Book:Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life

Source: Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life

“The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.”

“Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.”

“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

Reality Black White Imagine Magic Photography Aspect Visuals Transition Black And White Departure Black And White Photography

Book:The role of the artist in conservation

Source: The role of the artist in conservation

“Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.”

Died Transition Rest In Peace

Author:Edgar Cayce

“The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.”

“Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.”

Wells Politics Nations Natural Wind Resources Climate Change Abundance Gas Transition Natural Resources Natural Gas Geothermal

Author:Julia Gillard

“It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.”

Ideas Progress Benefits Capitalism Harm Opposition Transition Surprising Justified Wipe Feudalism Commodification

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.”

Seems Grief Transition

Book:The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

Source: The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

“Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling (I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train”

Knows Young Games Boys One Thing Drug Gun Train Hip Hop Transition Nuts Bangs Hustle Slang Mustang Lamborghini

Author:ASAP Rocky

“I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.”

Kind Reality Death Dying Judgment Research Experience Life And Death Transition No Fear Fear Of Death Personal Experiences Near Death Not Afraid Of Death Alternate Realities

Author:Raymond Moody

“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”

Men May Moments Evil Causes Secret Steps Effects Events Divine Periods Consequence Every Man Chains Former Unexpected Present Moment Links Transition Incidents Foresight Sagacity

Author:Joseph Addison

“The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination of Western politicians. For this reason Western politicians cannot grasp the fact that the Soviet intention is to win by 'democratic' means. Through transition to a new system, the Soviets are revitalising their own people and institutions, and they are succeeding. Contrary to Western belief, they are holding their ranks together.”

“Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.”

Thinking Difficult Buddhism Historical Transition Modernity Epoch

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

Source: The Analects

“It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.”

Kind Book Real Play Stories Games Dark Modern Comic Transition Comic Book Modern Day Real Story Alone In The Dark

Author:Christian Slater

“We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.”

Way Should Leader Our Lives Economic Depends Proud Limits Structure Soldier Profit Commit Peaceful Organized Transition Socialist Mutiny

Author:Jane Fonda

“TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.”

“We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.”

Should Country Use Opportunity Energy Economy Strategy Transition

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.”

Important War Stars Generations Lifetime Filmmaker Transition Always Believe New Generation

Author:George Lucas

“Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism in Mongolia. . . . Buyandelger has created an emotive, accessible, and well-researched ethnography sure to arouse sympathy and interest in readers.”

Wells States Shows Together Purpose Interest Memories Reader Capitalism Socialism Narrative Ties Transition Fragility Shamanism Molding Mongolia Ethnography

Author:Michael Warren

“It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Research shows that during the most important transitions of life—including those periods when youth are most likely to drift away from the Church—the greatest influence does not come from an interview with the bishop or some other leader but from the regular, warm, friendly, caring interaction with parents.”

Heart Children Doe Important Shows Parent Church Leader Impossible Influence Youth Periods Research Including Caring Warm Interviews Friendly Transition Interaction Bishops Overestimate

Author:Robert D. Hales

“I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.”

Way Want Feels Given Felt Support Childhood Female Therapy Transition Hormones Chelsea Support Me

Author:Chelsea Manning

“We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.”

Believe Helping Church Focus Revolution Missions Transition Scope Times Of Transition

Author:Jay Bakker

“Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition”

Ends Jobs Challenges Vision Imagine Produce Materials Needed Future Profound Oil Eras Transition Sustainable Development Rethinking Redesign

Author:Ellen MacArthur

“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Facts Deals Democracy Violence Security Expectations South Peaceful Transition Relative South Africa Long Way Peace And Security

Author:Susan Rice

“What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.”

World Firsts Important Country States President United United States Election Experiments Peaceful Transition Other Countries

Author:George Washington

“The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.”

Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

“The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.”

Self Energy Responsibility Wonder Worry Wonderful Burden Chiefs Transition Throwing Centre Shifting Equilibrium Equanimity Receptivity Self Responsibility

Author:William James

“As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.”

Ends Political Force Nations Goal President Successful Conditions Advice Security Military Duty Transition Afghanistan Commanders Evaluate Prospects Best Advice Afghan Security Forces

Author:Mitt Romney

“Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”

Trying Ideas War States Problem Political Forget Modern Century Pure Europe Transition Genocide 21st Century 19th Century Nato Us Army White Genocide

Author:Wesley Clark

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”

Light Earth Black Water Dark Space Rich Saws Sky Color Becoming Shadow Blue Dear Clouds Surface Spots Enjoyed Horizon Transition Coal Violet Spectrum Dark Blue Light Blue

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.”

Kind Chance Destiny Stage Mark Absolutes Appearance Encounters Transition Declaration Fright Contingency Stage Fright Declarations Of Love

Author:Alain Badiou

“Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman”

Girl Transition Modeling Business Woman Happy Girl Being A Girl

Author:Karolina Kurkova

“I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.”

Knows Way Might Dark Walking Ocean Climate Climate Change Edges Transition Regimes Cliffs

Author:Terry Joyce

“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.”

Change Transition

Book:Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

Source: Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

“In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.”

Source: How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration

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