A Quotes
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“All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.”
“All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.”
Source: The Form of the Personal
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
Source: Daniel Deronda Volume I EasyRead Edition
“All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“All measures of conservation, as well as all technologies meant to wean us from fossil fuels, are worth pursuing in the same way that doing something is always more than doing nothing.”
Source: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
“All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“All media depend on advertisement to survive.”
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels.”
“All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.”
“All media work us over completely.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.”
“All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.”
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bearing and raising the next generation of warriors is not needed for equality-loving elves.
Equality-loving elves. Who are monarchists. With a class system. Of ranks.
Battles are more fun when attractive young women are dismembered and desecrated by goblins! I believe that this is one point where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and all Christian fantasy writers from before World War Two were completely agreed upon, and it is a point necessary in order correctly to capture the mood and tone and nuance of the medieval romances or Norse sagas such writers were straining their every artistic nerve and sinew to create.
So, wait, we have an ancient and ageless society of elves where the virgin maidens go off to war, but these same virgin maidens must abide by the decision of their father or liege lord for permission to marry?
-- The Desolation of Tolkien”
Source: Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
“All meditate on symbols, I meditate on people.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.”
“All meditation starts with the root of intention.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.”
“All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.”
Source: Essays Before a Sonata
“All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.”
Source: Mallory's Oracle
“All memory can do is scream for touch.”
“All memory is a form of fiction. But all fiction is a form of reality.”
Source: Perforated Heart
“All memory is fiction.”
“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“all memory turning to light
suns dwell inside the snow sleet.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“All men & women are created equal”
“All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.”
Source: In place of folly
“All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.”
“All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.”
“All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
“All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.”
“All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.”
“All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.”
“All men are afflicted with some burden or the other,” he said, “and one can be fooled into thinking a fellow is uncaring when all he is, is heart-broken.”
Source: A Tudor Turk
“All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.”
“All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.”
“All men are alike when asleep.”
Source: The Eudemian Ethics
“All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.”
“All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.”
“All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love
nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“All men are bastards. Some are obvious bastards. Some are covert bastards. The ones who appear to be bastards are safer as you know what you are dealing with. The men who hide behind a facade of manners and politeness are the coldest of bastards’.”
Source: Reham Khan
“All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.”
“All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.”