Collectives Quotes - Page 17

• All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

  Keith Getty

  Song, Promise, Age

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• Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Raindrops, Awakening

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• ...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

  Winston Churchill

  War, Stress, Ukraine

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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Ukraine, Hands

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• ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

  Bell Hooks

  Life Changing, Moving, Creating

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.194, Routledge

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• The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Process, Entity

  "Human action: a treatise on economics".

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• History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

  Ralph Davis

  Memories, Collective Memory, History

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Light, Technique

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Responsibility, People, Use

  David C. Korten (2010). “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Way, Reactions

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

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• The future exists only in our imagination
  it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
  that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
  listening in the silence
  until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

  Dawna Markova

  Voice, Imagination, Waiting

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• If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

  Janine Shepherd

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

  Janine Shepherd (2016). “Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person”, p.121, Sounds True

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shopping

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• There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

  Barack Obama

  Interesting, Individual, Salvation

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• Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

  Ibn Arabi

  Quests, Invisible, Revelations

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• His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

  Edward Seaga

  Men, Voice, Style

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• What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property “owner” faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and “go to auction” at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as “fascism.”

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Rights, Government, Years

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• The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Strong, Individual, Nations

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• This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.

  Robert Jensen

  Simple, Discovery, World

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• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  Karen Tei Yamashita

  Imagination, Cheesy, Fascination

  Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

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• There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

  Jaime Lerner

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

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• The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Struggle, Rights

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