Ralph Abraham famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.
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In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for “the snapâ€, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.
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I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!
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My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
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The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.
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My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.
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Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
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Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
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Our choices determine our destiny
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I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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