“I did my civic duty. Haha I'm driving a Civic! Whoa!”
Patrick Stump (1984) American musician
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8PH_N6QgG0
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Time to Depart
Context: Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.
“I did my civic duty. Haha I'm driving a Civic! Whoa!”
Patrick Stump (1984) American musician
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8PH_N6QgG0
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Viktor Orbán (1963) Hungarian politician, chairman of Fidesz
Tusnádfürdő speech https://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/prime-minister-viktor-orban-s-speech-at-the-30th-balvanyos-summer-open-university-and-student-camp, 27 July 2019
Li Hongzhi (1951) Chinese religious leader and dissident
Zhuan Falun http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/zflus.html
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: Pacific revolution in America will not be wrought by men who are afraid of losing influence, position, and income. Building a new world is the most perilous form of pioneering, and the most glorious victories of religion have ever been won in hours of fiercest danger. And so it will be in our day.
P. D. Ouspensky book Tertium Organum
Tertium Organum (1922)
Context: Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones. And since we are able to trace how the energy of love transforms itself into instincts, ideas, creative forces on different planes of life; into symbols of art, song, music, poetry; so can we easily imagine how the same energy may transform itself into a higher order of intuition, into a higher consciousness which will reveal to us a marvelous and mysterious world.
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
Anand Gandhi (1980) Indian film director
"There is no free will, but you have a choice! (And the role of memes in choice-creation)" in Handbags and Lingo (3 November 2013) http://anand.memesyslab.com/2013/11/there-is-no-free-will-but-you-have.html<!-- INKTalks --> <br class="br">Context: The promise of survival beyond individual death or dispersion appeals to the most primal driving force of existence. Promises of transcendence have evolved out of the thriving desire to ward off the inevitable threat of individual death. Most systems propose a more or less perfect immortality – one where memories, hopes, desires, knowledge and even experiences survive the death of the physical body. An engagement and acceptance of this meme makes death particularly irrelevant. The upholding of the promise at the cost of individual sacrifice becomes acceptable. Individual sacrifices even become necessary in validating the promise.
E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977) British economist
Source: Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 36.
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), pp. 156-157
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Rick Cook (1944) American writer
The Wizardry Consulted (1995)