Convergence Quotes - Page 3

• We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006.

  Jorma Ollila

  Units, Devices, Millions

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• We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.

  Carlos Barrios

  War, Environmental, Transition

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• Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

  Abdul Kalam

  Issues, Views, Understanding

  Speech at the Banquet hosted by President of Philippines, mea.gov.in. February 04, 2006.

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• Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Horse, Sea, Long

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• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

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• New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Theory Of Evolution, Discovery, Religion

  "Popeular Science" by Phil Plait, www.slate.com. October 29, 2014.

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• I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

  Nick Clegg

  Believe, Long, Climate

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• In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Philosophy, Communication, Civilization

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• Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

  Wayne Coyne

  Mind, Trying, Lucky

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• Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

  Gail Jones

  Distance, Caution, Assurance

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• Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Technology, Mass Destruction, Example

  Source: www.rt.com

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• What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.

  Judith Butler

  Christian, Two, Evil

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange.

  Marina Warner

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.

  Ross Douthat

  Attitude, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Heart, Bridges, Way

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• At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

  Mark Steyn

  Oakland, Government, Long

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• The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

  James Gleick

  Fall, Blow, Ideas

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.

  Colin Callender

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved closer together, and this convergence coincided with greater institutional strength for all the Christian churches than, for the most part, you see today.

  Ross Douthat

  Christian, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Aquarius

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• This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  World Government, Goal, Historical

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• It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

  Van Jones

  Spiritual, People, Humanity

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• The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Water, Energy, Climate

  "Sacred Economics". Book by Charles Eisenstein, 2011.

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• They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict.... Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Blood, Europe, Political

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• Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Suffering, Matter

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.61, Harper Collins

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