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Quotes About Emergence

The alt-right didn't emerge from nowhere. There's a cultural foundation that existed beforehand that was almost like the petri dish and the growing medium for the alt-right.
~ Christopher Wylie
Lisa's philosophy is that instead of trying to enact change from the top down (i.e., print a lot of posters telling people what to do, or attempt to enforce rigid guidelines), we're actually much better off creating little pockets of chaos. The idea is that in this chaos, solutions can emerge.
~ Ori Brafman
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
~ Cornel West
She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Negro farmer started behind,—started in debt. This was not his choosing, but the crime of this happy-go-lucky nation which goes blundering along with its Reconstruction tragedies, its Spanish war interludes and Philippine matinees, just as though God really were dead. Once in debt, it is no easy matter for a whole race to emerge.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness. Perhaps, Dominick, you have yet to emerge fully from the pond where you swam that morning so long ago. And perhaps, when you do, you will no longer look into the water and see the reflection of a son of a bithc.
~ Wally Lamb
When he emerged, I'd stand on the stool amidst the steam and the aroma of uncapped Old Spice, watching my face wobble and drip in the medicine cabinet mirror.
~ Wally Lamb
It's as if the work on your canvas has a will of its own. When that happens, it can be quite exciting. But disturbing, too, when, as the painter, you are not in control of your painting.
~ Wally Lamb
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing
~ Walt Whitman
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, for that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring forth from the war emerging, a book I've made , the words of my book , nothing, the drift of it, everything . . . . -Walt Whitman
~ Walt Whitman
another approach to the creation of software emerged. It was pushed by one of the diehard denizens of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Tech Model Railroad Club, Richard Stallman
~ Walter Isaacson
Machines such as these emerged in the 1950s, and during the subsequent thirty years there were two historic innovations that caused them to revolutionize how we live: microchips allowed computers to become small enough to be personal appliances, and packet-switched networks allowed them to be connected as nodes on a web.
~ Walter Isaacson
you are interested in the history of the digital age and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson's book is a must read." —
~ Walter Isaacson
cross between an enhanced eBook and a wiki so that new forms of multimedia history can emerge that are partly author-guided and partly crowdsourced.)
~ Walter Isaacson
Once you can change your thoughts, your new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the first step on the road to your personal freedom.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
~ Wendell Berry
The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
~ Wendell Berry
When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
Horniness and hunger are the actual elements that determine a groundhog's behavior when it emerges in winter from months of hibernation.
~ Charles Panati
Television's emergence as the dominant medium of communication gave birth to the slickly marketed health-wealth-and-success gospel rampant in today's church.
~ Charles W. Colson
And so we come full circle, back to where we began. For it is this pervasive sense of impotence that has paved the way for the emergence of political saviors and the all-powerful state that promise salvation through changed structures.
~ Charles W. Colson
Each day I felt as if I were looking up from the bottom of a deep well.
~ Cheryl Strayed
hiding in my winter cocoon not coming out again until June
~ Terri Guillemets
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
~ Hannah Arendt