Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
11 August 1972; p. 90
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 21
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Context: I believe that now we have a profound responsibility to open the gates of opportunity for all the world's people so that they can become stakeholders in the kind of society we would like to build at large in the world and at home. Let me be clear: promoting prosperity throughout the world is a crucial form of forward engagement.
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Chuck Hagel (1946) United States Secretary of Defense
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Andrew Bacevich (1947) United States Army officer
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Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
Statement of 1938, as quoted in Meher Baba On War : And Other Relevant Messages (1972); also Discourses (1987), p. 268<!-- 1938, India, MJ 1:1 p 4-7 -->
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Context: The Avatar appears in different forms, under different names, at different times, in different parts of the world. As his appearance always coincides with the spiritual birth of man, so the period immediately preceding his manifestation is always one in which humanity suffers from the pangs of the approaching birth.