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“Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.”

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.”

Ifs Whole Happens Action Peace Remains Accomplished Appropriate Stillness Right Action

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.”

Mean Ends Spirit Letters Constitution Appropriate Scope Adapted

Author:John Marshall

“There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.”

Shows Sides Can Do Youth Projects Appropriate Sonic Youth

Author:Kim Gordon

“The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.”

Knows Giving Firsts Ideas Science Names Known Steps Objects Foundation Notion Appropriate First Steps Distinguished Classification Classifying

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.”

Ends Fronts Produce Needed Approach Resources Appropriate Alignment Pharmaceutical Needed Change

Author:Robert A. Young

“Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.”

Needs Enough Easy Particular Critical Resilience Lifestyle Developing Diets Appropriate Balanced Nutrition Adequate Proper Nutrition

Author:Daphne Oz

“The question is, what are appropriate words and inappropriate words for network television, and what's the context? Was this appropriate in this context? Or are you creatively trying to find a way to use that word on the air?”

Way Trying Use Air Television Crafts Appropriate Inappropriate

Author:Don Ohlmeyer

“If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means.”

Ifs Men Mean Use Values Grows Goal Bears Obedience Firm Attractive Appropriate Weary

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on”

Ifs Thinking Way Stills Reality Inspiration Moving Black White Color Developing Appropriate This Day Black And White Processing

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”

Ifs Men Humans Wells Kind Soul States Action Certain Turns Principles Virtue Activity Performances Function Excellence Noble Rational Appropriate Good Man Implying Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.”

Ifs Knows Action Information Good Things Administration Appropriate Investigation Leaks Classified Information

Author:George W. Bush

“Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.”

Humans May Universe Language Prayer Powerful Hell Tears Appropriate Accents Savages Risen Auras Nectar Hungarians Cyanide

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.”

Courses Stupid Majority Islam Terror Terrorism Terrorist Appropriate Links Overwhelming Sympathetic

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.”

Want Firsts Mean Real Universe Individual Difficult Knowing Perspective Habit Behavior Standing Universal Prejudice Come Up Appropriate Customs Ancestor

Author:Dainin Katagiri

“I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”

Thinking Values Asks Opportunity Nations Appropriate Trends Rooted Compatible Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Janet Yellen

“...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.”

Should Kind Ideas Ends Including Illness Bored Appropriate Good Ideas Being Bored Loose Ends Herpes

Book:The world according to Clarkson

Source: The world according to Clarkson

“I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Would Be Term Leader Careers Position Illness Mental Illness If I Could Appropriate Therapists Understand Me

Author:John Forbes Nash

“I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: "Honk if you love Jesus." No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one's love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.”

“The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Age Causes Subjects Discovery Method Available Appropriate Remarkable Phenomenon Possessed Rainbow Epiphany Demonstrating Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Rene Descartes

“It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. ... Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?”

“A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.”

Littles Dangerous Trade Appropriate Apollo Star Gazing Levity

Author:Wally Schirra

“It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”

States Use Would Be Law Force President United United States Imagine Military Circumstances Constitution Extraordinary Appropriate Territory

Author:Eric Holder

“Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers”

“People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.”

People Thinking May Mean Country Use Language Technology Fire Particular Tools Tasks Accomplish Developing Appropriate Electricity Pencils Silicon Developing Countries

Author:Mae Jemison

“I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.”

Ifs Way Writing Stills Shows Happened My Way Appropriate Tonight Letterman

Author:Joe Rogan

“It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.”

Agree Budgets Appropriate Disagree Amendments Balanced Balanced Budget

Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.”

Years Country Seems Remember Study Records Player Style Late Appropriate 80s Memphis

Author:Alex Chilton

“On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.”

Labor Trade Slave Appropriate Ownership New Orleans Payment Purchasing

Author:Ned Sublette

“It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.”

Needs Giving Law Clear Protect Tools Reform Appropriate Cherish Law Enforcement Enforcement Maintaining

Author:Leonard Boswell

“I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.”

Believe I Can Would Be Culture I Believe Realizing Answers Responsibility Practice Style Design Building Function Marketing Appropriate Architect Beneficial Standpoint

Author:Cesar Pelli

“The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.”

Names Computer Size Appropriate Length Scope

Author:Mark Jason Dominus

“Yes I have a belt. I wear big pants because my ass is huge. So I can't go to a store by off the rack a size that is appropriate for my waist because they don't fit my ass!”

I Can Bigs Huge Fit Size Stores Ass Appropriate Pants Wwe Belts Racks

Author:John Cena

“I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.”

Thinking Politics Speech Appropriate Restriction

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?”

Looks Said Situation Week Conditions Billions Appropriate New Orleans

Author:Lynn Westmoreland

“How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.”

“A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.”

Should Trying Government Steps Fit Function Pressure Appropriate Steps Forward

Author:Laura Chinchilla

“I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.”

Needs Real Materials Fit Logic Strive Performing Appropriate Construction

Author:Gaetano Pesce

“The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.”

Ifs I Can Honesty Response Appropriate Frank Barbara

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden. I may sound like a kook who plants my landscape with cucumbers instead of carnations, peppers instead of petunias, and fruit trees rather than ficus, but I am convinced that wherever you go, you can grow food! Now is the time for us to join together and plant the seeds that will transform the places in which we live.”

Believe May Home Together I Believe Grows Sound Ability Tree Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Convinced Landscape Appropriate Location Peppers Cucumbers Fruit Trees Petunias Carnations

Author:Greg Peterson

“Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.”

Feels Firsts Heart Art Father Heaven Causes Wonder Mystery Worship Ancient Philosopher Awe Appropriate Delightful Majesty Our Father Humbling Admiring Overpowering

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.”

Men Mean Whole Age Emotion Youth Poet Appropriate Mature Intensity

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.”

People Knows Rooms Products Messages Breaths Sells Advertising Appropriate Flood Living Room Intestines Appropriate Time

Book:The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

“It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.”

Artist Materials Function Confusion Appropriate Immortal Copies Idle Irrelevant Gross Select Raw Materials Actuality

Book:The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews

Source: The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews

“It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.”

States United United States Relation Chinese Appropriate

Author:John Breaux

“Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.”

Needs Individual Technology Generations Lucky Appropriate

Book:Imagined World

Source: Imagined World

“A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.”

Personality Unconscious Appropriate Rejects Organisms Nourishment Robust

Author:Gustav Mahler

“There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.”

Knows Years States Higher Findings Tests Dollars Billions Sat Appropriate Legislators Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.”

Kids Age Stuff Parent Mistake Watches Bigger Lazy Appropriate

Author:Jennie Garth

“Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.”

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