Continuity Quotes - Page 2

• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  Garrett Hardin

  Heart, Ecology, Conservatism

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

  Tracy Kidder

  England, Programming Languages, New England

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• The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

  Herbert Read

  Philosophical, Feelings, Historical

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1971). “Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics”

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• I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Thinking, Data

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• Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

  Morris West

  Buddhist, Talking, Continuity Of Life

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• For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

  Kenneth Burke

  Degrees, Different, Kind

  Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”

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• Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Jobs, People, Violence

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• The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

  David O. Selznick

  What Matters, Continuity Of Life, Religion

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• Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Littles, Statistics

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.51, 谷月社

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• The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Discovery, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.111, MIT Press

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• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Life, Christian, Time

  Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry

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• Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

  George F. Kennan

  Writing, Historical, Endurance

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

  John Berger

  Art, Cinema, Vagrants

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• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

  Oliver Lodge

  Time, Science, Museums

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

  Andrew Carnegie

  Home, Dark, Light

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• What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Holes, Courses

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• If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Angel, Intelligent, Body

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Perspective, Retrospect, Visible

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.223, Grove Press

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• The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

  David Brin

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Three

  David Brin (2016). “Insistence of Vision”, p.61, Fiction Studio Books

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• The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.

  Simon Schama

  Stars, War, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2005.

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• I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

  DJ Quik

  Kids, Years, Games

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• We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Giving, Remembrance, Together

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growth, Synthesis, Mere

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Continuity Of Life, Needs

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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