A Quotes
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“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”
Source: Killosophy
“As individuals express their life, so they are.”
Source: The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
“As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.”
Source: The German Ideology
“As individuals progress on their adventure into these areas, their analytical overlay (view of reality) will find these sorts of "balanced uncertainties" quite ordinary. This is called "Flow State Logic" or potentially even "Field State Logic" wherein "Everything Exists as a Routing instruction" rather than a finite endpoint.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“As individuals think and believe, so they are.”
Source: Strangest Secret
“As individuals we are strong. Together, with God, we are unstoppable.”
“As individuals, we hardly have any control over the world. At best, what we can do is try controlling ourselves.”
“As individuals, we have enormous power in the ways we abandon the scapegoated, or instead stand up for them. We have power to
change the ways we encourage shunning and instead do the work to facilitate communication. Simple shifts in personal behavior and their expressions in political structures of power, produce changing public norms which can make huge differences in individual and collective experiences.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we’re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.”
“As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.”
Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.”
“As individuals, it's a responsibility to be cautious about the things we DO put out there. And taking the time to be mindful of what we're sharing. And always coming from a place of integrity. But also sharing positive things. Whether it be online, or just to someone walking down the street - just passing on positive energy.”
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”
“As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.”
“As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.”
“As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.”
“As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.”
“As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.”
Source: Standing by Words
“As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.”
Source: On photography
“As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.”
“As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.”
“As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more and more weight on the educational system, to look to school reform as the means of closing the 'achievement gap' and of guaranteeing the increasingly illusory promise of equal opportunity. We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.”
Source: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”
Source: Just After Sunset: Stories
“As information and voice amplification become the new symbols of power, those who would assume control of society have moved to hoard voice amplification and control the message received by the public in new ways.”
“As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.”
Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
“As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.”
Source: Who Owns the Future?
“As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.”
Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
“As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting.”
“As injustice is being served, Chicago continues to see increases in shootings, proving even if to elect “the right” person, any promises to curb violence would not be accomplished”
“As injúrias devem ser cometidas de uma vez só, de modo que, por sua brevidade, ofendam menos ao paladar; ao passo que os benefícios devem ser feitos aos poucos, para que sejam mais bem saboreados.”
Source: The Prince
“As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.”
“As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente perigoso e se correr riscos excessivos pode acarretar custos enormes à economia no seu todo.”
Source: Liberalismo e Seus Descontentes
“As instituições lobotomizam seus sacerdotes a fim de produzirem adeptos permanentes, reforçadores de suas políticas perversas.”
Source: Asfixia
“As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.”
Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“As integral places in rural development, villages in Afghanistan should be merged in the industrial estates. If this happens the Afghanistan regime will be in a transition state and pave the way for secularism, federalism and real democracy.”
“As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.”
“As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.”
“As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.”
“As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.”
“As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.”
“As investor Michael Batnick says, "some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood." We are all victims, in different ways, to that truth.”
Source: The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel, You Are a Badass at Making Money By Jen Sincero, Money: Know More, Make More, Give More By Rob Moore 3 Books Collection Set
“As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.”
“As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq.”
“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.”
“As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
“As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.”
“As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.”
“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”
Source: Shaken Bible Study: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms