continuity

There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must __og on_ somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. _ From the book jacket

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.