Transition Quotes - Page 17

• 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, Ongoing

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• A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  People, Progress, Age

  Gregg Easterbrook (2003). “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse”, Random House Incorporated

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• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

  John Boyd Orr

  Civilization, Unity, Age

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• We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.

  Oscar Ichazo

  Karma, Fall, Heart

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• The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Naval Warfare, Navy, Submarines

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• I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.

  Terry Joyce

  Ocean, Dark, Climate

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• Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Business Woman, Modeling

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• We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

  Jane Fonda

  Leader, Peaceful, Soldier

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• For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Science, Bystanders

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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• We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

  Jay Bakker

  Believe, Focus, Church

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• As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Successful, Goal

  Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 24, 2012.

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• It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

  Christian Slater

  Real, Book, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  "Earth's Aura". Book by Louise B. Young, 1977.

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• Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism in Mongolia. . . . Buyandelger has created an emotive, accessible, and well-researched ethnography sure to arouse sympathy and interest in readers.

  Michael Warren

  Memories, Ties, Together

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• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Europe, Ideas

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.

  Geoff Petrie

  Team, Reality, Years

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• It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

  Laura Thielen

  Children, Reality, Cities

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• I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

  Loni Anderson

  School, Kids, Reality

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• TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, White, Giving

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• The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.

  John Elkington

  Inspiring, Hands, Comfort

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• We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

  Van Jones

  Country, Opportunity, Energy

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Chance

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

  David W. Orr

  College, Leaders Of Tomorrow, Environmental

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