#evolution

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. ↗

— Patty Duke

#depression #evolution #manic #miracle #recovery

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#consciousness #defined #development #evolution #grand

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#became #began #civil #civil liberties #electronic

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#combination #deeper #events #fell #influences

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#cause #communists #economists #etc #getting

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#boy #complexity #diversity #evolution #i

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#access #because #digital #director #disk

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#anyone #bob #bob dylan #bring #did