16.59 I listen to Strive by A$AP Ferg and Missy Elliott.
"What is most striking is this ceaseless striving by the political leaders of all parties to resemble one another," says Bill Curry, a former aide to President Bill Clinton who has come to rue this kind of politics.
In Rome, Bosworth eloquently argues, everyone seeks a "usable past" and strives by whatever means – from town-planning to tourist guides (which got going in the 1140s, with the Mirabili Urbis Romae) – to "cleanse" the place of unwanted or uncomfortable histories.
Finally, in IIIp7, Spinoza expressly identifies this striving with the thing's essence; "the striving by which each thing strives to persevere in its being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing".
US political scientist Francis Fukuyama argues in The End of History and the Last Man that the striving by citizens for liberal democracy arises as a part of the soul that demands recognition.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community across the world strives by way of their peaceful 'jihad' to stem the tide of Islamophobia and extremism with peace campaigns, leafleting, charity walks, blood drives and many other initiatives.
One of these leaders, Casimira Rodríguez Romero, Bolivia's Minister of Justice, recounts in the UNICEF report her own testimony of life and struggle to have her voice be heard: "I awakened my conscience to strive, by creating with other women, the Domestic Workers Union of Cochabamaba in 1987.
Ms. Clarke's choreographic interpretation of a community of striving people, by turns supportive and vicious, is a stirring one.
This investigation extended the goal striving literature by examining motives for two goals being pursued simultaneously.
Originality of thought and expression was also striven for by Choumnos' rival and adversary at court, Theodore Metochites (1270 1332).
