#evolution

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.


Wole Soyinka


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This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.


Adolf Galland


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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.


Randall Terry


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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.


Stanislav Grof


#conducive #consciousness #death #evolution #fear

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.


Adlai E. Stevenson


#end #revolution #stop #time

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


George Orwell


#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

To tell the truth is revolutionary.


Antonio Gramsci


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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.


Terrence McKenna


#evolution #new-age #pschedelic #age

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.


Alain de Botton


#anachronisms #death #permanence #revolution #sociology

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.


Simon Newcomb


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