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• I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

  Chris Wedge

  Technology, Feet, Feelings

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• ...La búsqueda de la causa puede ser una empresa inútil porque la mayoría de los estados de enfermedad son el resultado indirecto de una constelación de circunstancias.

  René Dubos

  Dark, Age, May

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• No sé muy bien cómo la escritura cambia las cosas, pero sé que lo hace. Es indirecta, como las estelas de las lombrices que airean la tierra. No siempre es deliberado, como las colas de polvo brillante que arrastran los cometas.

  Erica Jong

  Escritura, Brillo, Polvo

  Erica Jong (1999). "¿Qué quieren las mujeres? Pan, rosas, sexo, poder", Perennial

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• El registro fósil implica ensayo y error, incapacidad para anticipar el futuro, características incompatibles con un Gran Diseñador eficiente (aunque no con un Diseñador de temperamento más remoto e indirecto)

  Carl Sagan

  Errores, incapacidad, ensayo y error

  "Cosmos".

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• A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Appreciation, Men, Want

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Chapter 7 "The Question of Sex" (p. 95). Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

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• The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Player, Self, Records

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

  George Santayana

  Real, Believe, Sadness

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• En los grupos organizados, como el ejército o la Iglesia, o bien no se menciona en absoluto el amor entre los miembros, o bien sólo se expresa de forma sublimada e indirecta, a través de la mediación de alguna figura religiosa en cuyo amor se unen los miembros y cuyo amor omnímodo se supone que deben imitar en su actitud hacia los demás. Uno de los principios básicos de la dirección fascista es mantener la energía libidinal primaria en un nivel inconsciente para desviar sus manifestaciones de un modo adecuado a los fines políticos.

  Theodor Adorno

  Religioso, Actitud, Ejército

  "La teoría freudiana y el patrón de la propaganda fascista". "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader", 1982.

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• I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Inspiration, Reflection, Universe

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Escribir, Emocionar, Pensar

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• En estrategia, el camino más largo suele ser el más corto: una aproximación directa al objeto agota al atacante y endurece la resistencia por compresión, mientras que una aproximación indirecta afloja el agarre del defensor al alterar su equilibrio.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Power, History

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• Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Strong, Independent, Thinking

  Fuente: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm someone who writes sentences and paragraphs. I think of the sentence - not only what it shares but, in a sense, what it looks like. I like to match words not only in a way that convey a meaning, possibly an indirect meaning, but even at times words that have a kind of visual correspondence.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, Language

  "Living in dangerous times". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

  William Hazlitt

  Abuse, Species, Homage

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). "Las obras completas de William Hazlitt: Escritos fugitivos"

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• If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.

  Steven Raichlen

  Simple, Secret, Use

  Fuente: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

  Martin Walser

  Negative, Direct

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Hay que creer en un placebo o no funcionará, pero si funciona, es obvio que lo hace de alguna manera indirecta, a través de la retroalimentación en el sistema inmunológico, digamos, o en la fuerza de voluntad del paciente para hacer un ejercicio más extenuante en su propia terapia.

  Charles Jencks

  Creer, Ejercicio, Camino

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• Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

  Leonhard Euler

  Wise, Perfect, Doubt

  "A method for finding curved lines enjoying properties of maximum or minimum, or solution of isoperimetric problems in the broadest accepted sense". Book by Leonhard Euler, 1744.

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• When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.

  John H Richardson

  Animal, Simple, Dying

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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• Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gambling, May, Succeed

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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