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• In America we're seeing the emergence of Donald Trump, who's the anti-establishment candidate, if you will, who's bucking all the conventional political wisdom on the basis of the fact that so many Americans feel that they've been left behind by the political system and that it's working to entrench advantage by insiders, rather than advantage the people of that country.

  Cory Bernardi

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

  Ronald Reagan

  Block, Organization, Issues

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983”

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• I am sure that it wouldn’t be in the long-term interests of China which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time to see the emergence of any sense of hostility animosity, tension, da da da, between itself and the African continent.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Long, Resources, China

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

  Cyril Smith

  Party, British Politics, Tasks

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• It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

  Jean-Francois Chevrier

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Animal, Psychics

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• The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."

  Paul Fry

  Media, Interesting, Focus

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Political

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.

  Aberjhani

  Peace, Volunteer, Political

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

  David Spangler

  Life, Appreciation, Creativity

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Life Changing, Struggle, Butterfly

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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• A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Book, Everyday

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• It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Independent, Effort, Want

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• During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

  Martin Filler

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Party, Two, Office

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• The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

  Lewis Thomas

  Song, Hands, People

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

  Martin Scorsese

  Opportunity, Hbo, Long

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Boys, Cbgb

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

  Hal Abelson

  Taken, Learning, Thinking

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• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Hunting, Diversity

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• The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Independent, Games

  "Chris Christie May Be the Smartest Man in Politics" by Ron Fournier, www.theatlantic.com. January 3, 2013.

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• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  Jacques Ellul

  Media, Technique, Use

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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