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«The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society»
Author: Nathan Rosenberg | About: Poverty, Richness | Keywords: emergence, intolerable, morally
«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.»
Author: Ben Hecht (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: Cinderella, emergence, fetch, fetching, frequent, glowing, Our Party, scene, strike back, striking, twelve, vanishing
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler | Keywords: chain, circuits, diver, emergence, flush, flushed, flushes, guided, immerse, immersed, immersing, insight, intuition, intuitions, likened, links, miraculous, moment of truth, reasoning, short circuit, sudden, surface of, Truth The, vanishes
«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt (Philosopher, Political scientist) | Keywords: appeared, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, Crime and Punishment, deterrence, emergence, for the first time, initial, initialed, initials, on the contrary, possessed, reappearance, specific, the commission
«My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller | About: Ideas | Keywords: accepted, badly, emergence, emergency, My ideas, needed, undergone
«Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar»
Author: Marshall McLuhan (Educator, Social Reformer, Writer) | About: Patriotism | Keywords: emergence, typography, unforeseen
«Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil. »
Author: Rig Veda | Keywords: consequently, done with, emergence, inhibit, inhibited
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