#merge

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #nothing #safe #simple #simple truth

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency. ↗

— John Edward

#buzzing #case #emergency #eternal #feel

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#makes #mass #mass media #media #possible

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#emerge #independent #purpose #unconscious

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#centuries #chance #cry #emerge #freedoms

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

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