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Letter "F" » finality
«There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
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Keywords:
correction,
delete,
deleted,
electronic,
finality,
gust,
gusts,
insert,
inserted,
inserting,
key word,
massacre,
negate,
negated,
negating,
paragraphs,
terminal,
The Terminal,
The Touch,
whimsicality
«Emerson has said that consistency is a virtue of an ass. No thinking human being can be tied down to a view once expressed in the name of consistency. More important than consistency is responsibility. A responsible person must learn to unlearn what he has learned. A responsible person must have the courage to rethink and change his thoughts. Of course there must be good and sufficient reason for unlearning what he has learned and for recasting his thoughts. There can be no finality in rethinking.»
«The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.»
«Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
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Biographer,
Educator,
Mathematician,
Writer)
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Keywords:
consuming,
famine,
feast,
finality,
imagines,
impel,
impelling,
impels,
nevertheless,
uncritical
«Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.»
«Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality»
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
dramatic,
dramatic performance,
evoke,
evoked,
evokes,
evoking,
finality,
followers,
frightfulness,
gesture,
grandiose,
grim,
lighthearted,
make-believe,
mask,
participating,
selves,
solemn,
spectacle,
staged,
tasks,
theatrical,
theatricals,
unreal
«The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.»
«There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.»