Continuity Quotes - Page 8

• Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Fun, Catching

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Historical, Identity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

  Gail Fine

  Philosophy, Focus, Latter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

  Tillie Olsen

  Meditation, Toil, Distraction

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Desire, Female

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• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Drama, Book, Night

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

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• Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

  Eudora Welty

  Travel

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Past, Europe, Things Change

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.257, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Past, Mind

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

  Jacques Chirac

  Determination, Ambition, Generosity

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• Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

  Francois Hollande

  Historical, President, Connections

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Reading

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• The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

  Joseph Sobran

  Comforting, Royal, Radical Change

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• I think what people watch television for is the emotional continuity, from episode to episode, and feeling that the experience that they had, four episodes ago, has actually been building to an episode that comes later, and knowing that the characters are growing, as a result of that, and making mistakes, is really, really important to the way people connect to television.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Mistake, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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• With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Rivers, Ordinary

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.124, Рипол Классик

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• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Giving, Pleasure

  Third Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India, February 14, 1971.

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• Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Awareness

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• Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Science

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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  John Hodgman

  Stars, Believe, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Self, Essence

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• I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Couple, Years, Progress

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