I Quotes
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“In solving random cases of underachievement, dealing with limited information is a common challenge.”
“In Somalia, like many countries across Africa and the Middle East, little girls are made "pure" by having their genitals cut out. There is no other way to describe this procedure, which typically occurs around the age of five. After the child's clitoris and labia are carved out, scraped off, or, in more compassionate areas, merely cut or pricked, the whole area is often sewn up, so that a thick band of tissue forms a chastity belt made of the girl's own scarred flesh. A small hole is carefully situated to permit a thin flow of pee. Only great force can tear the scar tissue wider, for sex.”
Source: Infidel
“In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.”
“In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!”
“In some areas of corporate controlled government, science, health and infrastructure, the USA is comparable to a third world country.”
“In some areas the American government is fine, in others it is blatantly corrupt!”
“In some areas the corporate controlled government does a good job and in others it is completely corrupt.”
“In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.”
“In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.”
“In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.”
“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.”
“In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.”
“In some capacity, they were once civilised. Once peaceful. But now they know, they were just tolerating each other. Waiting.”
Source: Down and Rising
“In some cases, change may come about abruptly – triggering a tsunami of overwhelming emotion within the mind.”
“In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.”
Source: Killosophy
“In some cases, ignorance is deadlier than poverty.”
“In some cases, inheritance is nothing but an act of paying one’s dues with a credit card.”
Source: F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
“In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.”
“In some cases it is identical because methamphetamine is one of the F.D.A. drugs allowed for children. The three basic stimulants now are amphetamine, methamphetamine, and then Ritalin, which are all in the same class and Schedule Two drugs along with cocaine, the most addictive drug as recognized by all the world's drug agencies.”
“In some cases, it is not the person that has changed, but their decision not to be themselves.”
“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.”
“In some cases, the absence of communication is another form of love and peace.”
“In some cases the mental perception you see is significantly different than the reality you do not see.”
Source: MIND MAGIC: Doorways into Higher Consciousness
“In some cases, the mind doesn’t share the body’s desire to continue living.”
“In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.”
“In some cases, trying is better than doing because it indicates that you are attempting things hard enough to fail.”
“In some cases, we first need to disappoint or enrage someone, or to break their heart, for them to finally show us their true colours.”
“In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Source: The Book of Three
“In some cases we neglect our health, because we were never told about its value.”
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”
“In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.”
“In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.”
“In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.”
“In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.”
“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.”
“In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.”
“In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.”
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.”
“In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)”
Source: Fangirl
“In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.”
“In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background”
“In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.”
“In some causes silence is dangerous.”
“In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.”
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics
“In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense”
Source: Essays Before a Sonata
“In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.”
“In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again