#emergence

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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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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

— Jacques Ellul

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The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. ↗

— Aly Khan

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You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

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We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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