S Quotes
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“Specifically, using Ai to realistically synthesize the "Envelope" of a specific environment and then actualizing destructive/constructive interference patterns will lead to, if not instantaneous materialization, then certainly a directional indication towards the most visible source of that matching vibrational resonance model, which I call a "frequencies equation.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.”
“Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.”
“Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.”
“Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.”
“Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.”
“Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.”
“Specificity is the soul of narrative.”
Source: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.”
“Speckled brown eggs that the farmer promised had been laid just that morning, two dark loaves of sourdough that crackled when I squeezed them gently. Meaty bacon from happy pigs, a chunk of salmon glowing coral and smelling like the sea. Little waxy potatoes firm to my touch, dirt-skinned onions, bouquets of fresh herbs. As I inhaled the scent of a bunch of rosemary, hot dusty summer captured in its needles, I felt my worries loosen their grip on me for a second, pleasure taking their place.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
Source: The Society of the Spectacle
“Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]”
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
“Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.”
“Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch”
“Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.”
“Specter of all evils, his terrible hand extends a vengeance. A great beast, the Devil's apprentice - ruler of evil and good. Enemy of God, an outcast of Heaven - emperor of all torments. A ritual figure, a pagan idol - occult leader for all Witches & Satanists. Philosophy of Good, an exile in Holy Pages - his blackness is his reign. Preist dreads him, pagans worship him - for he is God in the universe of unclean. A victor king in the kingdom of sinners, known as the all-powerful Baphomet.”
“Spectre: Atrocitus? You wish to continue to fight?
Atrocitus: If I must. You were chained to a human soul to understand humanity, but it is clear you understand it no more than the guardians. This man... This man lost his daughter. You have no emotional component to your judgement. For you, vengeance is simply eye-for-an-eye. But that convict's life did not equal the life of Kim's daughter. His "eye" is worth nothing compared to hers. Eye-for-an-eye is a fallacy.
Spectre: You dare question my scripture?
Atrocitus: You may be objective and calm in your judgments, Spectre, but once you pass them you are no longer haunted by their victims. But the victims are our families. And the hauntings never stop. No matter what blood has spilled, there will never be enough to balance the scales. So if you wish to judge James Kim, you must first judge me.”
“Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?”
“Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself.”
Source: Shinjo: Reflections
“Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.”
“Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.”
Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“Speculation cannot replace education.”
“Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.”
Source: He Shall Thunder in the Sky
“Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.”
“Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.”
“Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.”
“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.”
“Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.”
Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.”
Source: Pride and Pleasure
“Speculation is not knowledge.”
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.”
“Speculation is the prequel to all whom accept to have to be misled"
"Vince L. DeSalvo”
“Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.”
Source: The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine
“Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.”
“Speculation, movements having abandoned rational thought, echo chambers, projection, hypocrisy by little to no self-awareness, bewildering minds brainwashed and manipulative hearts manipulated - one is sure to find these à la people cock-sure in their biased and fanatical, immovable despising of persons. We would all do well to humbly re-think from time to time: 'Whom do I really hate? For what purpose?”
Source: Healology
“Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.”
“Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.”
Source: The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”
“Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.”
“Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.”
“Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.”
“Speculative fiction writers, those who speak truth to power through their literature, must lie while telling the truth. Witnesses in the assassination of John F. Kennedy - for example - can back me up on this fact, if only they could.”
“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”
“Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.”
“Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.”
“Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.”
“Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.”