O Quotes
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“One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.”
“One common problem caused by postural faults is forward head position, in which the head is sitting forward of the spine. In this posture, for every inch the head moves forward, the weight of the head on the spine increases by an additional 10 pounds. People whose head is sitting 3 inches forward of their shoulders are now supporting 42 pounds of weight, compared to what is typically 12 pounds in aligned posture. This can occur in both sitting and standing postures. It can pull the spine out of alignment, reduce lung capacity inhibiting complete lung aeration, contribute to a sluggish gastrointestinal system, cause tension headaches, and decrease balance. Most devastating is if forward head posture leads to cervical spine instability, as a result of constant strain on the ligaments which stabilize the neck. A stable cervical spine protects the spinal cord and brainstem. The laxer the ligaments, the stronger the muscles must be support the head and neck.”
Source: Disjointed Navigating the Diagnosis and Management of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
“One common problem with AI is it will lack in common sense and creative thinking. These two fields are not nearly on the table if we are speaking about AGI. This is why I personally think that humans and AI need to handle together the global decision-making process.”
Source: Together: AI and Human. On The Same Side.
“One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.”
“One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions, but I don't like them.”
Source: Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”
“One company stayed on without pay. The men, contrabands from Georgia, went to Saint Simons Island to help garrison the island. Proud to be the last soldiers in Hunter's regiment, they hunted invading rebels in dense palmetto thickets.”
Source: Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
“One compelling argument for ethical governance is that it promotes trust. Trust is the bedrock of any healthy relationship, including those between a company and its stakeholders.”
Source: The Virtuous Boardroom: How Ethical Corporate Governance Can Cultivate Company Success
“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”
“One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.”
“One competent go-getter is worth One Hundred incompetent do-nothings. - Kailin Gow, On Hiring a Winning Team”
“One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.”
“One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.”
“One component of infinity is the complete absence of time.”
Source: THE BOOK THAT HAPPENED – Is Reality but Sheer Coincidence?
“One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.”
“One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.”
“One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.”
Source: Existential Psychotherapy
“One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.”
“One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.”
Source: Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
“One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian.”
“One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.”
“One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.”
“One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.”
“One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.”
“one consequence of the fact that our popular historical understanding erases roughly 1870 to 1932 from public memory is that many Americans have a distinctly warped view of how resilient american democracy actually is
(11/12/2020 on Twitter)”
“One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.”
“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them will be both long-lived and nontechnological. Since hazards from asteroids and comets must apply to inhabited planets all over the Galaxy, if there are such, intelligent beings everywhere will have to unify their home worlds politically, leave their planets, and move small nearby worlds around. Their eventual choice, as ours, is spaceflight or extinction.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“One consistent step at a time.”
“One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.”
“One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”
Source: Condolences of the season: selected poems
“One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.”
“One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”
“One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?"
--Eanrin”
Source: Dragonwitch
“One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.”
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.”
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
Source: Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-
“One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.”
“One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.”
“One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear of guns], of course, is not simply an attitude but rather an aberration in which the sufferer clings to an idea which he himself knows to be unsound, such as the idea that inanimate instruments have a will of their own or that lawbreakers abide by the law.”
“One Cossack with a thin face burnt black by the sun, and evidently dead drunk, lay flat on his back under a wall which had been in the shade an hour or two earlier but was now exposed to the fierce slanting rays of the sun.”
Source: The Cossacks
“One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.”
“One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump`s foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.”
“One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”
“One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself.
This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature of the LEGO pieces of our world—atoms—as material objects that appear to become so only through an act of creative focus. This may strain credulity, but at the fundamental level of energy, it’s just how ‘things’ are.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.”