Continuity Quotes - Page 7

• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Giving, Pleasure

  Third Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India, February 14, 1971.

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• Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Dying, Conflict, Tradition

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.257, A&C Black

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• That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Good Friend, Flames

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.360, Penguin

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• I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Silence, Suffering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Fun, Catching

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Historical, Identity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Intellectual, Generations

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• I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

  Dabo Swinney

  Thinking, Sometimes, Good Things

  Source: beachcarolina.com

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• I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Spiritual, Art, Calling

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• I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

  Earle Brown

  Healthy, Needs, Culture

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• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.

  William Shatner

  Past, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ice, Land, Names

  "At Last, Zion: Israel and the Fate of the Jews". The Weekly Standard, www.freeman.org. May 11, 1998.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Heaven, Trying, Symbols

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• The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Space, Waste, Flaws

  James Clerk Maxwell (1998). “Escritos científicos”, p.79, Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press

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• Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

  Zhuangzi

  Birth, Starting, Ends

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• If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

  Gail Fine

  Philosophy, Focus, Latter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Biblical, Progress, Exhibitions

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• He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Past, Long

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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• The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Past, Mind

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• If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Past, Europe, Things Change

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.257, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

  Eudora Welty

  Travel

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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