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continuity
«Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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affirmations, continuity, defiant, essentiality, honoring, threatened, unreasoning
«What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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achieves, bourgeoisie, cinema, continuity, might-have-been, princes, spontaneous, vagrant, vagrants
«Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.»
«Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous»
Author: Yehudi Menuhin
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Music
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compatibility, continuity, creates, disjointed, divergent, From Chaos, harmony, imposes, incongruous, melodies, melody, music, order, rhythm, rhythm and, unanimity
«To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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actual, cities, civilization, continuity, Germany, ruined
«If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.»
«He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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anticipate, at liberty, companion, continuity, disjoin, disjoined, disjoins, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, motionless, outlives, retrace, sentiment, settled, suspended
«The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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biography, continuity, Go Between, jolt, jolted, marries, maximum, minimum, revolutions, smoother, time and space, transitions, untouched