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There was [in Spain] a civilization in many respects admirable. It was eminent for industry, science, art and poetry; its annals are full of romantic interests; it was in some respects superior to the Christian system which supplanted it; in many ways it contributed largely to the progress of the human race. (...) Yet because of the fundamental defect that between the Christians Spaniards and his Mussulman conqueror there could be no political fusion, this brilliant civilization was doomed.
— John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England (1889),Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p.11
It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.
— Chapter 50 (p. 504) (Leviathan Wakes (2011))
We Futurists , Balla and Depero, seek to realize this total fusion in order to reconstruct the universe by making it more joyful, in other words by an integral re-creation. 'We will give skeleton and flesh to the invisible, the impalpable, the imponderable and the imperceptible. We will find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements of the universe, and then well will combine them according to the caprice of our inspiration, to shape plastic complexes which we will set in motion.
— Fortunato Depero and Giacomo Balla. The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe in: Direzione del Movimento Futurista, March 11, 1915. Translation by Caroline Tisdall, 1973.
The Chinese are less a nation than a fusion of peoples united by a common culture, and the history of China is the record of an expanding culture.
— Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, China: A Short Cultural History (1965).
All is the play of beats and they will always remain the same as ever, you can only add instruments; so fusion is fine if created esthetically. My only concern always has been, is of maintaining the purity of our forms and not creating a fusion that confuses the audience in identifying the original beauty and qualities of our traditional dances.
— Birju Maharaj in “Dance is the best yoga: Birju Maharaj”
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.
carl sagan— Cosmos (1980, p. 238)
GNOSTICS, n . A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists . The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
ambrose bierce— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
The French people there is no French race is an amalgamation of practically all the tribes that have surged across Europe. It is a comparatively modern people formed by the fusion of numerous and diverse ethnic elements.
— Charles Kay Ogden, Psyche: An Annual General and Linguistic Psychology 1920-1952, Routledge, 1995, p.88
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don’t understand everything.
greg bear— p. 73 (Heads (1990))
It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter ,with the nature of his materials.
— A Potters Book (1940) Faber & Faber,London 1978 (reprint of 1940) ISBN 978-0571109739
If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things — solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria — as forms of consciousness, just as a man can close his eyes and realize that he exists, even though his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea.
paramahansa yogananda— Ch. 43 - The Resurrection Of Sri Yukteswar
No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill— The Melting Pot, act 1.
It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.
daniel abraham— Chapter 50 (p. 504)
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.
lev artsimovich— as quoted by E.E. Kintner at the Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Conference proceedings, Volume 1, Nuclear fusion. International Atomic Energy Agency. 1978.
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir— Pt. III : The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Ch. 3 : Freedom and Liberation
Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Socialism, by organising production without class oppression, by ensuring the well-being of all members of the state, gives full play to the “sympathies” of the population, thereby promoting and greatly accelerating the drawing together and fusion of the nations.
— Collected Works, Vol. 22, pp. 320–360
