Mechanism Quotes - Page 7

• The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Science, Law, Physics

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• It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
  live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
  body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
  He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
  or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
  kill a person who does not want to die.

  Seth

  Gun, Epidemics, Self

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• The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Suffering, Noble

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• Actors, who invest a lot of time and energy, will never put down each other. Every one of us has their own space in the industry. These stories are either publicity mechanisms or someone just writes them to create a controversy.

  Katrina Kaif

  Writing, Space, Energy

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• I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.

  Jen Lancaster

  Thinking, Self, Keys

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• What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Order, Essence

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Humble, Biblical

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• Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

  John Constable

  Art, Poetry, Understanding

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• Esta pregunta me ha perseguido toda la vida y, de repente, me golpeó: 'No hay un yo que realizar. ¿Qué demonios he estado haciendo todo este tiempo? Verás, eso te golpea como un rayo. Una vez que te golpea, todo el mecanismo del cuerpo que está controlado por este pensamiento se hace añicos. Lo que queda es el tremendo organismo vivo con inteligencia propia. Lo que te queda es el pulso, el latido y el palpitar de la vida.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Auto, Pulso, Rayo

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• Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Fundamentals, Function

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.7, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Skills, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.193

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• La fragancia astringente de los crisantemos llega
  Cada año para disimular el mecanismo del tintineo
  de máquina dentro de máquina dentro de máquina.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Years, Machines

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage

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• The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Pensar, Años, Petróleo

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• Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Doctors, People

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.197, Island Press

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• When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Cancer, Political

  Ana Castillo (1995). "Masacre de los soñadores: Ensayos sobre el xicanismo", Plume Books

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• Como un mecanismo de supervivencia, o como una forma de hacer un poco de dinero a costa de los demonios en las sombras, trato de no menospreciar el proceso de pensamiento de los teóricos de la conspiración. Como me enseñó una vez una camarera de Las Vegas: nunca menosprecies el trabajo de los demás.

  John Ridley

  Vegas, Coping Mechanisms, Hustle

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Support, Political

  "Greenspan’s Testimony: Will the ‘Maestro’ Face the Music?" by Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Simple, Complicated

  Henry Adams “The Letters of Henry Adams”

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Real

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• [Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Together, World, Shapes

  "Kenneth Ewart Boulding: 1910-1993. An Appreciation" by Robert A. Solo, Journal of Economic Issues Volume 28, No. 4, pp. 1187-1200, www.jstor.org. December 1994.

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "Sobre la creación de sistemas que fracasarán". Communications of the ACM, volumen 34, número 9, dl.acm.org. Septiembre de 1991.

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• It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Spiritual, Men, Purpose

  "Fiasco". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1987.

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• Como médico, examino el planeta moribundo como a un paciente moribundo. La Tierra tiene un sistema natural de mecanismos homeostáticos interactivos similares a los del cuerpo humano. Si un sistema enferma, como la capa de ozono, los demás sistemas desarrollan anomalías en su funcionamiento: las cosechas morirán, el plancton se dañará y los ojos de todas las criaturas del planeta enfermarán y tendrán problemas de visión.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Un sistema económico sólo puede seguir siendo viable mientras la sociedad disponga de mecanismos para contrarrestar los abusos del poder estatal o del mercado y la erosión del capital natural, social y moral que tales abusos suelen exacerbar.

  David Korten

  Erosion, Long, Abuse

  David C. Korten (1995). "Cuando las empresas gobiernan el mundo", Island Press.

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• The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Sky, Rose

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