W Quotes
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“What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt
“What is better, to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
“What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
—Liz Gilbert”
Source: Untamed
“What is beyond doubt is that until now women's possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone's interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances.”
Source: Extracts From: The Second Sex
“What is beyond the mind, has no boundary, In it our senses end.”
“What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel”
Source: Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays
“What is Binder Jetting in 3D Printing
The binder jetting 3D printing process involves depositing an adhesive binder onto thin layers of powdered material. These materials can be ceramic-based, like glass or gypsum, or metal, such as stainless steel.
During the printing process, the 3D print head moves over the build platform, depositing droplets of binder, similar to how a 2D printer applies ink to paper. Once a layer is completed, the powder bed lowers, and a new layer of powder is spread over the build area. This layering continues until the entire object is printed.
After printing, the parts are in an unfinished, or "green," state and require further post-processing. To enhance the mechanical properties of the parts, an infiltrate substance, such as cyanoacrylate adhesive for ceramics or bronze for metals, is often added. Another method involves placing the green parts in an oven to sinter the material grains together.
Interestingly, the term "3D printing" originally described a process that used inkjet-like heads to deposit binder material onto a powder bed layer by layer.”
“What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“What is birthday, but a celebration of death.”
“What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?”
“What is black, white, Asian and indigenous? Man's spirit knows of no race, politic, agenda nor identity. Man's soul knows only its infinite Self.”
Source: Elements of Creation
“What is blood but the wine of life?”
“What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.”
“What is born in the visible is the echo of what vibrates in the invisible.
And between the two, a myriad of variations binds what seems divided.
Nothing dies: all transforms, and returns to itself."
"Every vibration carries a choice — and every choice shapes a universe.”
Vincenzo Marino, The Arkhè Vibration”
Source: The Arkhé Vibration
“What is born of earth goes back to earth: but the growth from heavenly seed returns whence it came, to heaven.”
“What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”
“What is bought is cheaper than a gift.”
“What is bravery? It takes courage and honesty to own up to your feelings in a world that is determinedly guarded. It takes bravery to be unashamed of your depths in a world that is cautiously unrevealing.It takes resolution to be open about the emotional truths of life in a world that is decidedly evasive....”
“What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.”
“What is broken in loss, will someday carve the deepest beauty, for it is, in the injured soul, where light explodes. The sun always rises from the womb of night.”
“What is Build, Build, Build? It is a revolution of Filipinos who want the next generation to see a better Philippines.”
Source: Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual
“What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.”
“What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.”
Source: Basic Economics 4th Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
“What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.”
Source: Language and Politics
“What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.”
Source: the new industrial state
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.”
“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”
“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford
“What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
“What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.”
“What is called freedom of thought in a large number of cases amounts to—and even for all practical purposes consists of—the ability to choose between two or more different views presented by the small minority of people who are public speakers or writers. If this choice is prevented, the only kind of intellectual independence of which many people are capable is destroyed, and that is the only freedom of thought which is of political importance.”
Source: Persecution and the Art of Writing
“What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.”
“What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.”
“What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
“What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.”
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“What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.”
Source: Les Misérables
“What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.”
“What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.”
Source: Sophia
“What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.”
“What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.”
“What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!”
“What is called true happiness? It is the contented state of 'chit' (internal component of knowledge and vision). The person who has attained contended state of 'chit' need not beg for anything in this world!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects