I Quotes
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“In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounting systems leads to an indiscriminate attribution of productivity to anyone grabbing a large income and downplays the productivity of the less fortunate. In so doing, it justifies excessive inequalities of income and wealth and turns value extraction into value creation.”
Source: The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
“In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing being observed, and the faster one moves the more pronounced these effects will become. We can never accelerate ourselves to the speed of light, and the harder we try(the faster we go) the more distorted we become, relative to an outside observer.”
“In essence, your mind isn’t truly of one mind; it’s an assembly of different processes and perspectives, honed over eons of evolution, each with its own agenda and voice.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.”
“In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'”
“In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.”
“In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.”
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“In essence, money gives us the calories we need to survive. Over time, we became aware that exchange and cooperation increase our chances for survival. Eventually we create tools to facilitate trade. One of these tools is called money.”
“In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.”
“In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.”
“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.”
“In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims”
“In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value. The preference, always, would be to buy a long-term franchise at a substantial discount from growing intrinsic value.”
“In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.”
“In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the mathematical vibrations that the strings would play. So musical metaphors have been with us in science since the beginning.”
“In essence, we’re their servants who help them and who guard them from the public. (Leo) Oh gee, golly, goodie, Mr. Leo! Can I have my eyes gouged out, too? (Susan)”
Source: Dark Side Of The Moon
“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth
“In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.”
“In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“In establishing a pole of internal identity in relation to the environment, the autopoietic process brings forth, in the same stroke, what counts as other, the organism’s world. To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.”
Source: Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
“In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.”
“In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.”
“In eternity everything is just beginning.”
“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“In ethical AI system frameworks, the systems, the creators, researchers, organizations, governments, and international agencies should always behave and update their own internal moral compass in the most advantageous way for humanity.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.”
“In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.”
“In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.”
“In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.”
“In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.”
“In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.”
“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.”
“In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called the "division of a line in extreme and mean ratio" (DEMR). ...the concept occurs in two forms. The first is formulated in Proposition 11 of Book II. ...why did Euclid introduce different forms... which we can find in Books II, VI and XIII? ...Only three types of regular polygons can be faces of the Platonic solids: the equilateral triangle... the square... and the regular pentagon. In order to construct the Platonic solids... we must build the two-dimensional faces... It is for this purpose that Euclid introduced the golden ratio... (Proposition II.11)... By using the "golden" isosceles triangle...we can construct the regular pentagon... Then only one step remains to construct the dodecahedron... which for Plato is one of the most important regular polyhedra symbolizing the universal harmony in his cosmology.”
Source: "GOLDEN" NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, THE: HILBERT'S FOURTH PROBLEM, "GOLDEN" DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, AND THE FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT
“In Europa, soprattutto, schiacciati da una legge (il GDPR) apertissima alle interpretazioni, gli albergatori devono affrontare un ulteriore livello di complessità nell’acquisire i dati dei propri ospiti nel rispetto di una normativa talmente vaga, a livello tecnologico, da rasentare il nichilismo procedurale.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.”
“In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.”
“In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.”
“In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.”
“In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.”
“In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.”
Source: America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near
“In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.”
“In Europe, every journey is a journey through time, where the past and present dance in harmonious elegance.”
Source: Easy Money
“In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.”
“In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born