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“Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.”

Brain Influence Aspect Vulnerable Vulnerability Resourceful Neuroplasticity Outside Influences

Author:Norman Doidge

“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.”

World Spirit Culture Force Growth Natural Clear Influence Modern Source Victory Aspect Supreme Permanent Islamic Modern World Genesis Distinctive Natural Science Islamic Culture

Author:Robert Briffault

“Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.”

Two Impossible Honesty Aspect Credit Explanation Factions

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.”

Social Conditions News Aspect Mirrors Reports Social Conditions

Author:Walter Lippmann

“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”

World Way Ideas Matter Whole Law Universe Force Rooms Results Movement Aspect Harmony Caught Disappear Conception Host Glimpse Governing Equilibrium Fourier

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.”

Mean Doe Art Reality Deals Class Study Example Aspect Psychological Internals Conventions Totality

Book:Collected Works: Do what you will

Source: Collected Works: Do what you will

“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.”

Mind May Doe Ideas Play God Pain Enjoy Involved Negative Aspect Labor All Things Absolutes Embrace Unity Earnestness Platitudes Truism

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.”

May Long Different Lying Support Path Wise Wife Changed Becoming Aspect Graves Idleness Meadows Bachelors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.”

Mean Doe Deals Objects Tvs Picks Aspect Direct Cameras Surface Resolution Electrical Facets Shutters

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.”

Reality Order Space Sky Creation Periods Glory Discovery Aspect Scientist Absolutes Chaos Painter Composer Observers Vans Frame Of Reference

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.”

Ifs May Self Stories Reality Produce Lessons Aspect Symbols Consistent Manipulation Predictions Representing Ensemble

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.”

World Nations Deals Members Aspect Organization Population Around The World Als Exploring Al Qaeda Aspects Of Life

Author:Jo Bonner

“Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.”

Aspect Feminine Masculine Masculine And Feminine

Author:David Deida

“The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.”

Ifs Thinking Play Jobs Lying Courses Numbers Wise Aspect Golf Investment Lawyer Managers Damage Bankers Golf Course Redeeming Municipality

Author:Garrison Keillor

“What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.”

Play Mother Found Happened Fields Grew Grew Up Smart Aspect Balls Legs

Author:Alexander Lowen

“Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.”

Social Interest Acting Advantage Aspect Devices Aspects Of Life Quintessential

Author:Marlon Brando

“A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.”

Play Reality Left Study Stage Aspect Breeze

Author:Moss Hart

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.”

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

Feelings Aspect Assuming Nobility Egotistical

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

May Stills Today Universe Ignorance Aspect Remains Surrender Someday Premature

Author:Isaac Asimov

“If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.”

Ifs Whole Culture Natural Strange Reader Aspect Stress Details Reasonable Bizarre Arbitrary

Author:Gregory Bateson

“What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.”

Ifs Needs Ends Turns Causes Interest Results Particular Activity Limits Aspect Substitutes Horizon Subordinates Entirety Fragmentation

Author:Georges Bataille

“Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.”

World Humanity Changed Aspect Tasks Changing The World Entirety

Author:Georges Bataille

“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”

Mean Government Would Be Economic Policy Aspect Determined Currency

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.”

Source: Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958

“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.”

Knows World Trying Born Aspect

Author:Edwin Powell Hubble

“It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'”

Made Real Would Be Choices Names Involved Tough Aspect Radio Compromise Mold Fitting Mtv This Is Me Saying Ok

Author:Josh Groban

“It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.”

Way Giving May Seems Happens Language Space Stage Aspect Impact Theatre Things Happen Objectives

Author:Antonin Artaud

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.”

Humans Kind Stills Literature Social Magic Aspect Primitive Ceremony Distinguished Human Society Embedded Aspects Of Life

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.”

May Important Deals Events Position Discipline Aspect Economics Complexes Data Phenomenon Physical Science

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”

Important Life Is Term Quality Aspect Affected Personal Life

Book:The Long Revolution

Source: The Long Revolution

“The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.”

Has Beens Purpose One Thing Aspect Temples Ritual Shelter Symbolic Dwelling

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.”

Play Games Speak Theory Drama Conflict Concerned Aspect Strategy Psychological Boards Logical Linked

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”

“When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Motivational Aspect Dating

Author:Sam Shepard

“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”

Source: The Greening of America

“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”

Want Mean Ends Home Political Goal Struggle Violence Economic Military Victory Aspect Destruction Israel Destroyed Compromise Palestine Back Home Elimination Zionism Mediation No Compromise

Author:Yasser Arafat

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.”

Important Fall Race Our Lives Personality Aspect Gender Introvert Spectrum Extroverts

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.”

Way Source Aspect Active Arise Genocide Colonialism Schooling

Author:Ward Churchill

“Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.”

Way Book Written Aspect Connections Empires Layers Emma Undermining Rothschild

Author:Rudrangshu Mukherjee

“I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.”

People Thinking Actors Share Aspect Appreciation Damn

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.”

Political Left Bits Aspect Sentiments Socialist

Author:Adolf Eichmann

“The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.”

Party Our Lives Aspect Bills Majority

Author:Virginia Foxx

“The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking partly for the experience it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.”

Feels Book Ideas Reason Past Used Certain Accepting Events Havens Comfortable Aspect Luck Divorce Chains Enjoyed Relate Timing Grandkids Backpacking Chain Of Events

Author:Alex Garland

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