"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."

-- Kevin Kelly

#Organization Quotes #Function Quotes #Persist Quotes

“We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.”
“And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.”
“Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.”

Source : Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.406, Penguin
“If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.”

Source : "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.
“Souls are God's jewels.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
“I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.”
“Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures”

Source : "Von der Natur der Gesichte-On the nature of visions", lecture - Vienna, 1912.
“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”

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