“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect… — Gail Jones Copy Share Image
This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence… — A. M. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The second conclusion, which is the heart of the book, is that the dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms pushing alternately… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“show simply facilitates a crossing of paths between people who love each other very much, but who’ve become estranged by misunderstanding.” “But… — Caeli Wolfson Widger Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution… — Nick Webb Copy Share Image
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a… — Norman Pearlstine Copy Share Image
This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image