I Quotes
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“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.”
Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
“In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.”
“In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter.”
“In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.”
“In effetti è sorprendente quanta gente abbia l'ambizione di decide re cosa gli altri possano o non possano fare della propria vita e del propri corpo.”
Source: Savant
“In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.”
“In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.”
Source: The literati
“In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.”
“In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.”
“In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.”
“In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.”
“In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.”
“In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.”
“In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.”
“In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.”
“In Egyptian Arabic, the word 'insan' means 'human'. If we remove the 'n', the word becomes 'insa', which means 'to forget'. So you see, the word 'forget' is taken from the word 'human'. And since it was God who created our minds and hearts, He knew from the very beginning that we would quickly forget our history, only to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So the ultimate test of every human is to seek wisdom. After all, wisdom is gained from having a good memory. Only after we have passed this test will we evolve to become better humans. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“In Egyptian art, the Beetle represents the Neter, Khepri, the cosmic law of becoming, the evolution of all living things. When you see a Beetle is inside a RA disc, especially when the disc is touching the third eye. This disc touching the third eye means something is coming into existence that has never been created before via Instant manifestation through Sound.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”
“In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there.”
Source: Man and Superman
“In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.”
“In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.”
Source: Deeply Odd
“In einem Abschied lag ein so großes Potential. Er war viel aufrichtiger, und während man sich voneinander entfernte, verschwanden einfach alle Fehler, die man gemacht, und alles was man mit dieser Person zusammen geworden war, so dass man neu anfangen und das sein konnte, was man wollte”
Source: Die Kunst, Schluss zu machen
“In einem freien Staat müssen Zunge und Meinung frei sein.”
“In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.”
Source: Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht
“In einer irrationalen Situation gebietet die Vernunft eine irrationale Reaktion.”
Source: Wir Die Tragischen Wenigen
“In einer neuen Weltordnung ist das Recht des Stärkeren durch die Stärke des Rechts abzulösen.”
“In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.”
Source: Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht
“In einer Zeit, in der wir ständig mit massenproduzierten Inhalten bombardiert werden, die darauf ausgelegt sind, konsumiert und gleich wieder vergessen zu werden, wie beschissenes Fast Food für den Geist, entscheidest du dich für das Gourmet-Dinner und schreibst Bücher.”
Source: Scherben einer zerbrochenen Seele
“In einer Zivilisation von Dichtern sind die Probleme der Gesellschaft gelöst, auch die Angst vor dem Tod ist kein Problem mehr. Den Logos für sich zu gewinnen, das ist doch das Höchste, wonach der Mensch strebt! Hat er das, braucht er kein Paradies mehr.”
Source: Der Perser
“In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.”
Source: Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
“In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.”
“In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.”
Source: New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body.
Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“In either hand the hastning Angel caught
Our lingring Parents, and to th' Eastern Gate
Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
To the subjected Plaine; then disappeer'd.
They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat,
Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes:
Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon;
The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through Eden took thir solitarie way.”
Source: Paradise lost
“In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.”
“In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I am also doing something more standardly philosophical. But I view most of the book as an interweaving of philosophy and literary criticism. If that entails a broadening of a standard idea of philosophy, it's a broadening I'd like to see happen.”
“In elections, where there is delay, there is a magic.”
“In elections, where there is delay, there is a magic being worked on behind the scenes.”
“In elections, where there is delay, there is magic.”
“In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.”
“In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.”
“In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.”
“In electronic signaling, phase is a definition of the position of a point in time (instant) on a waveform cycle. Lagging phase refers to a wave that occurs "behind" another wave of the same frequency. When two signals differ in phase by -90 or +90 degrees, they are said to be in phase quadrature. So time within a day remains constant but the counting of it can vary.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.”