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• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Pain, Thinking, Bird

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• I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we
  can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

  Lily Tomlin

  Men, Trying, Consciousness

  Variety Magazine, 2003.

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• The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Together, Rooms, Film

  "Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna Stage Their Own Revolución". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.

  Manu Joseph

  Distance, Men, Mba

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• I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Airplane, Elephants

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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• All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

  Keith Getty

  Song, Promise, Age

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• Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Raindrops, Awakening

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• ...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

  Winston Churchill

  War, Stress, Ukraine

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• - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Ukraine, Hands

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• ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

  Bell Hooks

  Life Changing, Moving, Creating

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.194, Routledge

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

  Ralph Davis

  Memories, Collective Memory, History

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Light, Technique

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

  Miranda Richardson

  Believe, Writing, Collective Unconscious

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview With James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys,
  to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to
  step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open.' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Mean, Heart

  Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

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• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Individual Strength

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• True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Drama, Discovery

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• No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Emotion, Individual

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

  Mario Monti

  Believe, Europe, I Believe

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• Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

  Learned Hand

  Fate, Missing, Would Be

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• As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn't: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to understand what they are going through and people to care about them without a personal agenda. This book was very helpful to me, and my attitude toward teens will never be the same.

  Doug Fields

  Attitude, Real, Book

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