#accord

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#actually #age #define #definition #different

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#acts #distinguished #objects #sensory #their

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#each #faculties #his #needs

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#acts #does #every #fate #his

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#believe #change #depend #fifth #fish

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. ↗

— Alan Bates

#affects #always #because #career #commercial

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. ↗

— Joan Blades

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