I Quotes
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“In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.”
“In the 8th Century, the Greek philosopher Homer thought that the Earth was flat. Many of the less educated people in the 15th Century still held on to that concept when Columbus set sail, following the setting sun west. The less informed warned Columbus and his crew of the danger of sailing right off the edge of the Earth. However, navigators and mathematicians knew better, since Greek philosophers in the 5th Century such as Parmenides, Empedocles and Pythagoras had already proved, by using various scientific methods, that the Earth was round. In about 200 BC Eratosthenes, who lived along the Nile near Alexandria, Egypt, calculated the circumference of the Earth to within a very close tolerance. Later in Prussia, Copernicus presented his concept that the Sun was the center of the Solar system and theorized that the planets revolved around it.
It was not coincidental that Copernicus did this shortly after Columbus discovered the new continent. Although the ancients did not have radio and television, they could communicate by various means, and definitely knew what was going on. However there were those who remained superstitious, believing that there were monstrous sea creatures near the edge of the Earth. But Columbus and other relatively educated people knew better!”
“In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.”
“In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.”
“In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.”
“In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.”
“In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.”
“In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.”
“In the Abhidharmakośa, time units finish with "year" (saṃvatsara). There is, however, another enormous unit of time that we could add, the kalpa, which is so long that it cannot be calculated in years. (The Chinese transliterated kalpa as kiap and translated it as "great time." In the Japanese game of Go there is a rule known as kō [Japanese for kiap] to prevent stalemates through constant repetition. Without it, the game could continue indefinitely.)”
Source: Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.”
Source: Lines & Lenses
“In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.”
“In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.”
“In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.”
“In the absence of a lover,I was satisfied to make love to my own melancholy”
Source: As Muses Burn
“In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.”
Source: The White Album
“In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.”
Source: The Vertical Self
“In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.”
“In the absence of an afterlife, dying requires no change of plans on your part; it instead means the end of planning, period”
“In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones.”
Source: This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
“In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he's the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it's always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed--and fifty thousand authors can't be wrong.”
Source: Death in the Andamans
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
“In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.”
Source: Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled, violently hosed, wrapped in wet canvas, confined to “mummy bags”, subjected to insulin-induced hypoglycemic comas, forced into seizures with massive doses of the stimulant Metrazol, injected with camphor, drugged into three-week comas with barbiturates and tranquilizers, involuntarily sterilized, and surgically mutilated. Rape by hospital staff was common, as was humiliation and verbal abuse. One reporter noted that a state hospital patient had been restrained for so long that his skin was beginning to grow around the leather straps.”
Source: Mouth
“In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.”
“In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.”
“In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.”
“In the absence of clear contextual teleconferencing rules, one way to look at this might be to not ask the question of how you should look.
Rather, put yourself in place of the person or people that have to look at you during the teleconference, and ask these three questions:
1) Does it demonstrate personal respect for the position you hold?
2) Does it demonstrate respect for your peers?
3) Does it demonstrate respect for the institution of which you are a part?”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
“In the absence of common goodness, spirituality is just cosplay with incense.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“In the absence of courage, there is avoidance.”
Source: YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness
“In the absence of evidence on either side, the presumption should be against creating a new, legalized monopoly. The burden of proof should lie on those who claim, in any particular case, that the state should step in to stop competition, outlaw copying, proscribe technology, or restrict speech.”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.”
“In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.”
“In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'”
“In the absence of facts, he thinks, we tell ourselves stories.”
Source: Before the Fall
“In the absence of faith, there is fear.”
“In the absence of fear there is little faith.”
“In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.”
“In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.”
“In the absence of freedom, society becomes a mere canvas painted by the brushstrokes of political control.”
“In the absence of God's love, there is hardly a difference between belief and disbelief.”
Source: The Religion of God
“In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.”
“In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.”
“In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
“In the absence of light, only darkness is left.”
Source: Bound by Sacrifice
“In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you.”
“In the absence of love all logic is treason.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“In the absence of love, evil thrives.”
Source: The Devil's Cabin: Hell Hath No Pity
“In the absence of love, sex ceases to be an instrument of intimacy and turns into a weapon causing dents and cracks in the relationship.”