Continuum Quotes

• The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

  John Mayer

  Daughter, Dark, Night

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• It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

  Vanna Bonta

  Thinking, Humanity, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space", August 1, 2006.

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• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Knowledge, Suggestions

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• Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

  Herbie Hancock

  Different, Moments, Music Is

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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Fundamentals, Legacy

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• I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

  Khoi Vinh

  Meaningful, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

  Dan Brown

  Fall, Lines, May

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• Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

  Neville Marriner

  Years, Avant Garde, Today

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• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Views, Self

  "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

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• I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

  Bill Bryson

  Long, Behaviour, Social

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• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Space, Bed, Warp

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Flower, Garden, Circles

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• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

  Eleanor Clift

  Cutting, Thinking, Finding The One

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• There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

  Peter L. Berger

  Religious, Vocabulary, Community

  Peter L. Berger (1961). “The noise of solemn assemblies: Christian commitment and the religious establishment in America”

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  Dan Brown

  Fall, Missing, Enlightenment

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• The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Essence, Space, Perception

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

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• The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.

  Deepak Chopra

  Space, Energy, Events

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• The impact of space activities
  is nothing less than the galvanizing
  of hope and imagination for human life continuum
  into a future of infinite possibility.

  Vanna Bonta

  Impact, Space, Imagination

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Responsibility, Rights, Different

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• Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life And Death, Different, Coins

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.308, Hachette UK

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• The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

  Mae Jemison

  Art, Creativity, Humans

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• In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Way, Century

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• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

  Richard Meier

  Past, Long, Architecture

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