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«When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself»
Author: Beatrice Hinkle
| About:
Culture
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, Back To Reality, evident, human culture, human existence, initial, initialed, initials
«A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.»
Author: I Ching
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adaptations, calmly, come by, creative person, gains, small person, stroke, stroked, The Strokes
«Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.»
«The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.»
«Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge»
«Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, response
«Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, aliment, branches, Branches of, climate, nutritious, regimen, regularities, regularity, retiring, temperance, The Hours, The Variations, variation, variations
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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adaptation, adaptations, American System, aspects, churches, church school, contained, endlessly, flowerpot, formulas, imprisoned, inexorable, in brief, in the north, kindly, mature, mother church, North, North A, North American, North by, radio, repeated, schemes, school system, sinister, subjected, the North, the press, to the north
«Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...»
«Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, keep on, lookout, successfully
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