A Quotes
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“A mudança tecnológica atual requer que tanto o inovador como o trabalhador sejam instruídos. (…) A capacidade das instituições económicas para aproveitar o potencial dos mercados inclusivos, incentivar a inovação tecnológica, investir nas pessoas e mobilizar os talentos e conhecimentos especializados de um grande número de indivíduos é decisivo para o crescimento económico.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.”
“A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.”
Source: Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
“A muffin is a cake for women who apologize too often and men who lack the courage of their convictions. A muffin is a cake that feels ashamed of its own nature.”
“A muffled voice startled them both.
"When are you going to kiss her?"
They pulled away. In the ballroom windows, noses and hands pressed against the glass, were the girls. They stood among the prickly rosebushes, beaming wicked little grins. Delphinium and Eve whispered and giggled to each other; Bramble wore a magnificent grin on her face and a spark of light in her yellow-green eyes.
Another figure stood among them. This one had his arms folded across his chest, stiff and firm and formal...
...Yet he did not look displeased.”
Source: Entwined
“A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.”
“A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
Source: Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris
“A mulher clitoridiana torna-se a figura da consciência feminina: “para desfrutar plenamente do orgasmo clitoridiano, a mulher deve encontrar uma autonomia psíquica”. A reivindicação da diferença sexual significa menos o confinamento em um esquema binário que a desconstrução do conceito de igualdade. As feministas radicais não procuram ser tratadas como iguais aos homens, mas ser consideradas – e antes de tudo se considerar – elas mesmas como o que são “autenticamente”, diferentes. Reconhecer-se como clitoridiana era na época um verdadeiro coming out. Com a “mulher clitoridiana”, a diferença saía do armário.
Para Lonzi, a crítica da construção heteronormativa da sexualidade feminina (ainda não é do ponto de vista temático uma questão de teoria do gênero) também supõe evidentemente uma rejeição da psicanálise freudiana e de sua equação entre clitóris e imaturidade, que transformam as mulheres em “aspirantes vaginais”.
A recusa da psicanálise freudiana é semelhante à rejeição da dialética hegeliana.
O feminismo, para as mulheres, toma o lugar da psicanálise para os homens. Na psicanálise, o homem encontra as razões que o tornam inatacável […]. No feminismo, a mulher encontra a consciência feminina coletiva que elabora os temas de sua liberação. A categoria de repressão na psicanálise equivale à do senhor-escravo no marxismo [e no hegelianismo]: ambos visam a uma utopia patriarcal que vê a mulher como o último ser humano reprimido e subjugado para sustentar o esforço grandioso do mundo masculino que rompe as correntes da repressão e da escravidão.
Questão fundamental da autoconsciência feminista, o clitóris marca doravante a distância irredutível entre submissão e responsabilidade.
Mas como evitar, entre mulheres, a reconstituição da potência fálica? A redução da distância?
Em seu diário, Lonzi evoca dolorosamente as dificuldades que encontra com Ester, sua companheira, que se sente dominada por ela.
Com Ester, só posso me calar. Ela está furiosa consigo mesma e não suporta isso. Agora, ousa dizer o que nunca havia dito, o que era impensável: que, em nossa relação, eu sou o homem e ela é a mulher. É assim que a dicotomia vaginal versus clitoridiana retorna, e nem o feminismo poderá pôr um fim nisso.”
Source: Il piacere rimosso. Clitoride e pensiero
“A mulher não tem forças para acompanhar o homem além dos limites normais traçados à espécie. E o gênio é o herói infeliz, que leva para a esfera dos arcanjos, onde deve conviver, os desejos e os instintos humanos, que os arcanjos, seus irmãos, não conhecem. Do alto, fica, pois, a acenar à sua companheira, mas ela não o compreende e não pode amá-lo. Sente por ele a revolta da própria inferioridade. E eis por que são infelizes no amor todos os gênios e todos os heróis.”
“A multi-dimensional IT creates multi-level values to the business as a whole.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.”
“A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.”
Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“A multidão humana foi a maior lição da minha vida. Posso chegar a ela com a inerente timidez do poeta, com o receio do tímido; mas, uma vez no seu seio, sinto-me transfigurado.. Sou parte da essencial maioria, sou mais uma folha da grande árvore humana".”
“A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.”
“A multinational corporation is dreaming. We are an organization of more than 100 thousand souls (full time) and are presently seeking individuals willing to trade their personal lot for a share in our dream. Entry level positions are now available for self-possessed persons who can see beyond the bottom line to a bottomless realm of possibilities. Our enterprise is now thriving in a tough, global marketplace and has taken on a life all its own. If you are a committed, focused individual with a hunger to be part of something far greater than yourself … our door is now open. Your life need not be a nightmare of failure and resentment. Join us. Outstanding benefits.”
Source: My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
“A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.”
“A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.”
“A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.”
“A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”
“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”
Source: Poems
“A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.”
“A multitude of people and yet solitude.”
Source: British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
“A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.”
“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness”
Source: My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.”
“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”
Source: The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”
“A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.”
“A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.”
“A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.”
“A multiverse is still a universe of one.”
“A mumin will never be satisfied with worldly happiness until he hears he reached paradise”
“A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.”
“A murder shared with many others, which is not only safe and permitted, but indeed recommended, is irresistible to the great majority of men.”
Source: Crowds and Power
“A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life”
Source: The Elixir of Life
“A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.”
“A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.”
“A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”
“A murderer was a worthy companion.”
Source: The subtle knife
“A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.”
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.”
“A Musafir in life
today I am here on
this side of the border
tomorrow I will be there
on the other side.
Searching for meaning
with my pen and journal
in my bag, I keep drifting
from here to there and
from there to here
A Musafir in life
there is no final home for me
no final destination awaits me
To keep on traveling is
my life's story
To keep on searching is
my life's purpose”
“A muscle in her delicate jaw tensed, and she took another sip of tea, dismissing him entirely in that same haughty manner he remembered all too well. "I don't believe so."
"Are you certain? You look familiar."
Her gaze shot up at last, and her eyes were sharp and assessing, brilliantly intelligent. He suddenly remembered she'd had a gift for science when they were younger, which was considered by some to be odd and inappropriate for a young lady of her station. He'd always found it rather intriguing.
Well, she still had brains. She seemed to know exactly what he was up to and was warning him to stop.
He smiled inwardly. She had spirit, too, he'd give her that. And by God, she'd grown lovely. He could not deny it. Those enormous green eyes were as disarming as ever. Even more so in fact.”
Source: Surrender to a Scoundrel
“A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.”
“A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.”
“A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.”