P Quotes
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“Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.”
“Patents are not forever, but inventions are.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Patents lend credibility to your products.”
Source: Road Humps and Sidewalks
“Patents protect ideas, but only if they are implementable.”
Source: Road Humps and Sidewalks
“Patents stand for you when everything else is lost.”
Source: Road Humps and Sidewalks
“Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.”
“Pater noster
Our Father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we'll stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty
With its mysteries of New York
And its mysteries of Paris
At least as good as that of the Trinity
With its little canal at Ourcq
Its great wall of China
Its river at Morlaix
Its candy canes
With its Pacific Ocean
And its two basins in the Tuileries
With its good children and bad people
With all the wonders of the world
Which are here
Simply on the earth
Offered to everyone
Strewn about
Wondering at the wonder of themselves
And daring not avow it
As a naked pretty girl dares not show herself
With the world's outrageous misfortunes
Which are legion
With legionaries
With torturers
With the masters of this world
The masters with their priests their traitors and their troops
With the seasons
With the years
With the pretty girls and with the old bastards
With the straw of misery rotting in the steel of cannons.”
“Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.”
“Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.”
“Paternity, paternity. Let's think about this. This discriminates against the childless. So you get a year off because you produce a brat. If anything if you have a child you should work more because your brat's going to annoy me at the restaurants.”
“Path is the defiance of defeat.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Path of life, path of light!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Path of light, path of life.”
“Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!”
“Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."”
“Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
“Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.”
“Pathetic,' the Dragon rumbled. 'This is what my sister sends against me, after so many years? Children? And the little bones always stick in my teeth...”
Source: The Forbidden Library
“Pathetic" Yrene told it.
Perhaps she spoke the word aloud, for silence fell.
Distantly, that bond flowing away . . . it thinned. The hand on her back drifted away.
"Utterly pathetic," Yrene repeated, her magic rallying behind her in a mighty, cresting wave. "For a prince to prey on a helpless woman.”
Source: Tower of Dawn
“Pathetically though, some full-fledged adult bodies are just disguised entities where thoughts and actions of babies are trapped, not for purity but for stupidity.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path”
“Pathogen disgust promotes physical avoidance, expulsion (e.g. vomiting), and cleaning behaviors. Disgust can also trigger activation of the security system; indeed, the two systems often work in synergy.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Pathological altruism refers to sincere attempts to help others that instead harms others or oneself and where this harm could have been reasonably anticipated. It is often caused by cognitive and/or emotional biases that blind people to the potentially harmful consequences of their actions.
Altruistic intentions must be run through the sieve of rational analysis; all too often, the best long-term action to help others, at both personal and public scales, is not immediately or intuitively obvious, not what temporarily makes us feel good, and not what is being promoted by other individuals, with their own potentially self-serving interests. Indeed, truly altruistic actions may sometimes appear cruel or harmful, the equivalent of saying “no” to the student who demands a higher grade or to the addict who needs another hit. However, the social consequences of appearing cruel in a culture that places high value on kindness, empathy, and altruism can lead us to misplaced “helpful” behavior and result in self-deception regarding the consequences of our actions.
In some cases, some people gain some benefit from the altruism, but other people and/or the altruist are harmed in ways that could be reasonably predicted, but are not due to such biases. These altruistic biases may be deliberately exploited by some people in order to gain benefits at the expense of other people.
Feelings of self-righteousness and sanctimony have been described as being an intensely pleasurable addiction for some people, which contributes to blind pathological altruism and rejection of logical arguments.”
“Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.”
“Pathological liars lie most often to themselves about their ability to fool others. They think they're geniuses at it when most people see through their constant deceit in a split second. Yet their brittle egos and lack of self-awareness (the reasons they lie in the first place) prevent them from noticing they're bad liars. Thus, they never learn, progress, and become better people.”
“Pathological people made the pathological ghetto, segregationists say. The pathological ghetto made pathological people, assimilationists say. To be antiracist is to say the political and economic conditions, not the people, in poor Black neighborhoods are pathological. Pathological conditions are making the residents sicker and poorer while they strive to survive and thrive, while they invent and reinvent cultures and behaviors that may be different but never inferior to those of residents in richer neighborhoods. But if the elite race-classes are judging the poor race-classes by their own cultural and behavioral norms, then the poor race-classes appear inferior. Whoever creates the norm creates the hierarchy and positions their own race-class at the top of the hierarchy.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.”
“Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey”
“Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.”
“Pathology can indeed evoke experiences of Absolute Godliness, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. They can also occur due to disturbance in the geomagnetic field of our planet, consumption of psychedelics, excruciatingly extreme level of stress during a near- death situation, or ultimately through a natural and healthy procedure of meditation or/and prayer.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.”
“Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.”
“Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.”
“Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.”
“Paths are long,
Paths are short -
Doest it make any difference
In what country,
Or on what path you lose your way?”
“Paths are made by walking”
“Paths are many, Truth is ONE!”
“Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe”
Source: The Gift
“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people.
Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (through they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths NEED walking.”
Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there.”
“Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs”
Source: Revival
“Paths do not come to you. You have to find them for yourself, and sometimes, you have to carve new ones entirely.”
Source: Sightwitch
“Paths go separated in the lines of the horizon.”
“Paths lead to places.”
“Paths that address to the mind is superior to the paths that touch the heart!”
“Paths that cross will cross again”
“Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.”
“Paths to other paths must always be open!”