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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.


Edward Bond


#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.


James J. Gibson


#consists #meaning #thing #value

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.


Mary Eva Swatek


#communication #humor #meaning #communication

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.


Terry Eagleton


#consciousness #discourse #failure #freudian-slips #lacan

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.


Quico Canseco


#approaching #demeaning #giving #giving up #liberty

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!


C. JoyBell C.


#destiny #flying #flying-spirit #footprints #god

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.


Robert E. Lee


#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!


Abraham Lincoln


#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.


J.D. Robb


#mean-crafty-and-rude #roarke #death

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.


Paulo Coelho


#death #life #meaning #death






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