A conception not reducible to ...

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

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Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
 Lawrence Jackson
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.