We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this ...
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To "see the ...
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To 'see the ...
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past—to pre...
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Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territoryits great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippias well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into...
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If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.
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How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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I don't avoid pain by not remembering something; I try to remember.... Memory is empowering, and it's what gives you your sense of continuity ...
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Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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