#vol

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#changes #era #evolutionary #evolves #greatness

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#ask #closer #confidential #entitled #less

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#does #especially #get #i #long

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#been #films #i #identify #interested

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#doing #fifty #fighting #neither #nor

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#committees #conditions #councils #crises #highest

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ↗

— Karl Marx

#employed #labor #machines #may #quell

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. ↗

— Rollo May

#choose #freedom #human #human freedom #involves