I Quotes
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“In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.”
“In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.”
“In Systems Thinking, the true wisdom often comes from a willingness to let go of past learning.”
Source: Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.”
“In systovation, people evolve first and push the system to evolve along.”
Source: Quantraz
“In 't verdriet om zijn tijd, en in toenemende maagpijn schilderde hij, terwijl er buiten sneeuw viel : 'De Blinden die elkander in de Gracht leiden';
't Valt voor in zijn vredige streek, met de kerk, ginder rustig en uitnodigend gezeten aan de voet van een buikrond heuveltje. Hier van voor, rechts, diept een koele gracht, waar lis wiegt en irissen tintelen. Op de voorgrond, in de richting van die gracht, komen de zes blinden met hun wijde mantels aan, achtereen elkaar vasthoudend aan hun staf, of de hand op de schouder van de voorgaande gelegen. Hun oude, getaande, domme bedelaarsgezichten zijn smekend omhoog gericht; maar hun ogen zijn ofwel gesloten, of 't zijn enkel matte, witte ballen of uitgezworen holtens. Ze zullen de gracht intuimelen, één voor één, lijk de voorsten al bezig zijn, - de eerste had nogal muziek bij!
Rond dit drama bloeit een schone, zachte zomer. Er is stilte, vrede en zon! Daarin ligt heel zijn tijd : 't verscheuren van elkanders overtuiging, de blindheid van elkendeen; daarin ligt zijn twijfel, zijn gebroken droom, zijn geloof, zijn verlangen naar rust, heel zijn hart en heel zijn ziel, - heel de tegenstrijdigheid van zichzelf en van zijn tijd. Toen hij de schilderij af had; - 't was enige dagen voor Kerstmis - liet hij palet en borstels uit zijn hand glijden.
'Nu heb ik, geloof ik, niets meer te doen dan maagpijn te lijden', zuchtte hij.”
Source: Pieter Bruegel, zoo heb ik u uit uw werken geroken
“In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.”
Source: The Principles of War
“In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.”
“In Taipei we had oyster omelets and stinky tofu at Shilin Night Market and discovered what is arguably the world's greatest noodle soup, Taiwanese beef noodle, chewy flour noodles served with hefty chunks of stewed shank and a meaty broth so rich it's practically a gravy. In Beijing we trekked a mile in six inches of snow to eat spicy hot pot, dipping thin slivers of lamb, porous wheels of crunchy lotus root, and earthy stems of watercress into bubbling, nuclear broth packed with chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. In Shanghai we devoured towers of bamboo steamers full of soup dumplings, addicted to the taste of the savory broth gushing forth from soft, gelatinous skins. In Japan we slurped decadent tonkotsu ramen, bit cautiously into steaming takoyaki topped with dancing bonito flakes and got hammered on whisky highballs.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“In Taiwan during the 1960s and mainland China in the 1980s, conceptualism played a role similar to that of Dada, that is, as a vehicle for upsetting conventions - aesthetic, social, and political. Almost all Chinese conceptual artists proclaimed an allegiance to Dada. On the mainland, they also embraced traditional Chan Budhism, wich encourages an ironic sensibility and rejects the privileging of any one doctrine in the search for enlightment. Combined, Dada and Chan Budhism became a potent weapon in the Chinese avant-garde's assault on business as usual.”
“In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.”
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth century. But milk tea-- specifically, Indian black teas where milkiness is as important as the tea-- arrived late, some time around the Second World War. As the story goes, a former bartender, Chang Fan Shu, thought to serve it cold, and shake it like you would a cocktail. When he did this, the fats and proteins in the milk allowed it to form a foam, and he made what people started to call bubble tea. Some shops started serving iced versions, shaken like a cocktail. And then in the eighties, in a Taiwanese tea shop-- and nobody can agree which one-- someone had the idea of adding chewy pearls of tapioca starch to the bubble tea, making bubble tea-squared. New variants quickly appeared. Earl Grey boba tea. Milkless jasmine green tea or osmanthus versions. A lot of the time the tea was lost completely, most notably in the crystalline pop fruit flavors such as lychee or mulberry, although also in milkshake-like blends like lilac taro.”
Source: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
“In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.”
“In taking a bath one is admitting he is dirty. In humility, he strips off all dignity and return as-was-born for natural cleaning.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individual, in this case the rabbit, the grim scene unfolding before me in the garden as the kite pecked at the belly of the poor beast, initiating a gyration in the corpse or almost corpse of the poor rabbit, a kind of organy wobbling. Now what was that that reminded me of? A hanging, tremulous, a doorway and a tidy garden. What happened to one’s past when one got beyond it?”
Source: Study for Obedience
“In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.”
“In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.”
“In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.”
Source: Sophia
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.”
“In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.”
Source: The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)
“In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.”
Source: Living with the devil: a meditation on good and evil
“In Taliban-controlled portions of Pakistan, “Polio vaccinations have been declared haram by the ulema, and the government campaign has subsequently stalled.” Like car insurance, vaccinations are a form of presumption. Only with the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat Valley in the late summer of 2009 was the Pakistani government able to resume vaccinations.”
Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
“In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.”
Source: An Actor Prepares
“In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of intimidation of witnesses and fear on the part of blacks to testify, in racial situations in particular. For someone like Mose Wright and others to testify against white defendants in a situation like this was historic.”
“In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.”
Source: Conversations with William Maxwell
“In talking and communicating, [it's important that we] really share information with one another - because I think that leads to better understanding - and also just kind of [educate] one another in a way that's really honest.”
“In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.”
Source: The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God?
“In talking so proudly about her "happy domestic home", Victoria was prefiguring the words of John Ruskin, the commentator who'd make the best-known pronouncement on the proper role of a Victorian woman. Home, he thought, was a "woman's true place and power". While a husband had to go to brave the rough world's perils, a wife should remain behind, in a private realm where her "great function is Praise" and her great opportunity the "sweet ordering" of her household.”
Source: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
“In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.”
“In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.”
“In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.”
“In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.”
Source: Live: art and performance
“In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.”
“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.”
“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.”
“In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
In floating, curling sprays,
The golden flower comes shining though the woods
These February days;
Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
To bring her gayly in,
This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
The yellow jessamine.”
Source: Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson
“In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.”
“In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.”
“In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.”
“In Tantra, we use "Beej Mantra" which may also be called "Seed Mantra".These mantras do not have a direct meaning, but each sound has immense power.For example,we use SHRIM as a Beej mantra for Goddess Laxmi,the Goddess of wealth.”
Source: The Tantric Curse
“In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.”
“In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.”
“In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.”