I Quotes
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“In communities in which spiritual life was permeated -as it invariably was- with supernatural beliefs, sacred cults and rituals, and the practice of magic, this was a potent force. All known hunter-gatherer societies -as with any other human society- exhibit the universal human quest for ordering and manipulating the cosmos.”
Source: War in Human Civilization
“In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.”
“In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.”
“In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for love. It is easy to talk about the love of GOD; it is another thing to practice it”
“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”
Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization
“In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.”
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is Jesus Christ.”
“In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.”
“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”
“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”
“In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.”
“In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.”
“In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of David Beckham for, in Real Madrid's opinion, "peanuts", and the never-explained departure of Jaap Stam appear to be the rational acts of a sage and far-sighted manger. To offload a player because he could not be reconciled with a role within the squad is a failing of management.”
“In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.”
“In comparison to the size of Mother Earth, human bodies are just bacteria surviving on her skin.
You are not human body. You are here just to watch the show.”
“In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.”
“In comparison to them and countless others, I had no right to suffer. But suffering came whether or not I was worthy.”
Source: Lady Clementine
“In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.”
Source: Each Man's Son
“In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.”
Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
“In comparison, there's no comparison.”
“In compassion lies the world's true strength.”
“In compassion meditation, instead of focusing on negativity, focus on positive transformation - transformation of the inner world and the outer world.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“In compassion we seek to be aware and care about the suffering of others. We seek to bring Enlightenment to all beings everywhere. This is complete selflessness, the Bodhisattva ideal.”
“In compassionate artificial intelligence there is no bright lines of boundaries. It encompass everything that eliminates the sufferings of humanity.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.”
“In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.”
“In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.”
“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.”
“In complete solitude, we discover our incomplete understanding and try to make it complete.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.”
Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley
“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.”
Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley
“In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.”
Source: Lake Views
“In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody”
“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.”
“In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.”
“In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.”
“In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.”
“In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.”
“In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".”
“In comradeship is danger countered best.”
“In concentrated portfolios, market fluctuations are magnified. All market noises look like real events.”
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”
“In concert, I often try to feel the audience and feel their way of hearing. If I feel that there is no contact between the audience and the music, I try to look stronger within myself, hoping that this will lead to a better contact.”
“In conclusion, a eulogy for the living is a powerful way to express our love and appreciation for the people in our lives.”
Source: Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas