#exit

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#black family #chronological #community #entrance #exit

Another grave limitation of language is that it cannot, like music or gesture, do more than one thing at once. However the words in a great poet's phrase interinanimate one another and strike the mind as a quasi-instantaneous chord, yet, strictly speaking, each word must be read or heard before the next. That way, language is as unilinear as time. Hence, in narrative, the great difficulty of presenting a very complicated change which happens suddenly. If we do justice to the complexity, the time the reader must take over the passage will destroy the feeling of suddenness. If we get the suddenness we shall not be able to get in the complexity. I am not saying that genius will not find its own way of palliating this defect in the instrument; only that the instrument is in this way defective. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#language #time #change

To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity. ↗

— Michael Denton

#factory #id #intelligent-design #irreducible-complexity #living-cells

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#compromise #conversation #creativity #diversity #left

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#being #bit #complexity #dish #elevate

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs. ↗

— Keith Lehrer

#circle #exit

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#concerto #developed #higher #i #much

I love to work. I love to have complexity. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#i #i love #love #work

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#action #appropriate #appropriate time #been #exit

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. ↗

— Michael Palin

#around #believe #complexity #corner #diversity