#evolution

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. ↗

— John Morley

#evolution #force #law #process

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dance #evolutions #gone #instance #instrumentation

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#arms #arms race #communications #considerable #easier

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#perilous #revelation #revolution #than

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#free #hemisphere #idea #independent #individual

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#everyone #his #needs #out #own

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#evolution #know #proceeds #vague