A Quotes
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“A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.”
“A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.”
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters
“A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.”
“A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would be able to organize both sides. I drew in a deep breath. We had the technology, the intelligence and the people—put enough sheep together and you have a herd, a force to be reckoned with. We needed a leader.”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing - a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.”
“A fuller sense of being follows when you continually do what you love”
“a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.”
“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”
“A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.”
“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.”
“A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.”
Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.”
“A fun read that reminds single girls everywhere that it's fabulous to be single.”
“A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.”
Source: Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite
“A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.”
“A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.”
Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.”
“A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.”
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable
“A functioning eco-system is a human need.”
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
Source: Naked lunch
“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”
“A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.”
“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.”
“A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.”
“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient. Terror as we know it today strikes without any preliminary provocation, its victims are innocent even from the point of view of the persecutor. This was the case in Nazi Germany when full terror was directed against Jews, i.e., against people with certain common characteristics which were independent of their specific behavior. In Soviet Russia the situation is more confused, but the facts, unfortunately, are only too obvious. On the one hand, the Bolshevik system, unlike the Nazis, never admitted theoretically that it could practice terror against innocent people, and though in view of certain practices this may look like hypocrisy, it makes quite a difference. Russian practice, on the other hand, is even more "advanced" than the German in one respect: arbitrariness of terror is not even limited by racial differentiation, while the old class categories have long since been discarded, so that anybody in Russia may suddenly become a victim of the police terror. We are not concerned here with the ultimate consequence of rule by terror—namely, that nobody, not even the executors, can ever be free of fear; in our context we are dealing merely with the arbitrariness by which victims are chosen, and for this it is decisive that they are objectively innocent, that they are chosen regardless of what they may or may not have done.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.”
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.”
Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.”
Source: Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
“A fundamental flaw in business today is that employees of 15yrs+ loose value instead of gaining it. They overlook the fact that after 20yrs, its knowledge gained through experience and not time spent on resolving a problem or task that holds the greater value.”
“A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.”
“A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
“A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.”
“A fundamental part of expressing trust in God is learning how to gaze at him and only glance at our problems.”
Source: Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance”
“A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.”
“A fundamental principle in spirituality emphasizes that we are not our thoughts. This concept is essential to initiate inner change. Buddhism teaches that attachment to our thoughts perpetuates suffering. Buddhist practices aim to observe, examine our thoughts, revealing their ephemeral and changing nature, and that they do not define who we are.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge”
“A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.”
Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.”
“A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.”
Source: The Five Most Important Questions Self Assessment Tool: Participant Workbook
“A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.”
Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis
“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”
“A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind.”
“A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don’t dare or know how to communicate them to others.”
Source: The School of Life
“A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.”
“A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.”
“A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.”