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COPE Create Options Pending Emergence -- Kamil Ali
Thus, the Lingam is the simplest sign or symbol of Emergence and Mergence. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged. -- Fritjof Capra
21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development. -- Narendra Modi
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us. -- Ursula Goodenough
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. -- Jacques Ellul
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. -- Christopher Lasch
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. -- K. Eric Drexler
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. -- Michael Shermer
The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid. -- Ron Fournier
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' -- Martin Scorsese
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. -- William Irwin Thompson
The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. -- John Gerzema
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color. -- John Henrik Clarke
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. -- William Irwin Thompson
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents. -- George Will
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. -- Geoffrey West
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. -- Arthur Scargill
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. -- Ibrahim Babangida
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. -- Martin Filler
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
The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town. -- Simon Mainwaring
Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions. -- Jim Lee
The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates. -- Robert Dallek
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism. -- Arne Glimcher
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology. -- Lewis Thomas
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world. -- Martin Jacques
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones. -- Alan Rickman
The average man. The emergence of the concept. -- Adolphe Quetelet
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. -- Immanuel Kant
Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay -- David Toop
Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence. -- Jeannine Parvati Baker
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. -- Imre Lakatos
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. -- Peter Atkins
The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world. -- Laurent Fabius
The emergence of one world consciousness must be accompanied with one world political infrastructures. -- Bryant McGill
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. -- Antonia Fraser
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church -- Eddie Gibbs
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. -- Peter L. Berger
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization -- Peter L. Berger
The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and donts. -- Michael Perlis
We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. -- Arthur Koestler
The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. -- Manmohan Singh
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar -- Marshall McLuhan
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. -- Cameron Sinclair
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place. -- Hari Kunzru
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects. -- Martin Rees
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order. -- Terence McKenna
Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy. -- Paul Virilio
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society -- Nathan Rosenberg
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. -- Gaston Bachelard
The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. -- Lester R. Brown
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. -- Aldo Leopold
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity. -- Terence McKenna
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself. -- Mother Teresa
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power. -- Pierre Trudeau
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university. -- Dean Spade
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth. -- Cyril Smith
The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses. -- El-P
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit. -- Jean-Francois Chevrier
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. -- Aly Khan
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave. -- Barack Obama
As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all -- Fela Durotoye
The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid." -- Ron Fournier
The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities. -- Jane Jacobs
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks. -- Henry Giroux
Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth. -- Lewis Mumford
We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s. -- Henry Giroux
What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated. -- Dianne Feinstein
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. -- William Irwin Thompson
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. -- Thomas Berry
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth. -- Al Gore
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
There are many beautiful and resource-rich areas all over the Philippines that are still undeveloped or under-developed. These areas offer opportunities for better master-planning and the emergence of better communities as well as cities. -- Andrew Tan
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. -- Herbert Marcuse
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation. -- Ludwig von Mises
The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself". -- Joanne Greenberg
I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it! -- John L. Casti
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. -- Albert Einstein
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating. -- Hari Kunzru
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. -- Paul Berg
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language. -- Noam Chomsky
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence. -- Gerhard Richter

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