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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.


William Ames


#action #active #agent #always #because

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.


Michael Apted


#anything #country #english #exercised #great

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.


Louis Aragon


#black and white #clash #conflict #darkness #error

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.


Hannah Arendt


#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.


Neil Abercrombie


#asset #damn #gave #incredibly #intents

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.


Halle Berry


#another #could #direction #give #goal

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.


Fredrik Bajer


#i #i think #letter #movement #necessarily

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.


Bob Goodlatte


#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.


Muhammad Iqbal


#around #aspirations #deeper #destiny #ends

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.


Alfred Marshall


#commodities #increased #inventions #labour #man






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