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Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.”

World Environment Air Building Essentials Attributes Apartment Steam Kinship Metropolis

Author:Ross Parmenter

“Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.”

Doe Facts Support Failing Teaching College Majors Research Evidence Critics University Tendencies Neglect Professors Attributes Thesis Undergraduate

Author:Derek Bok

“... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.”

“Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.”

Today Spiritual Opportunity Making Money Attributes Spiritual Life

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?”

May Eye Science Doubt Color Planets Plant Naked Warrior Characteristics No Doubt Attributes Mars Hue Naked Eyes

Author:Camille Flammarion

“Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.”

Matter Body Sound Elements Combination Colour Attributes

Book:The analysis of sensations

Source: The analysis of sensations

“In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.”

People Knows Doe Cities Affair Attributes You Choose Settlement

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.”

People Willing Attributes Wiser

Author:P. Chidambaram

“There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.”

Facts Born Attributes Sections Sanguine

Author:Simon Callow

“Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.”

Doe Religious Design Position Diversity Intelligent Philosophical Complexity Attributes Modest Religious Faith Intelligent Design Diversity Of Life

Author:William A. Dembski

“There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.”

Humans Beautiful Science Values Particular Constitution Affection Valuable Arise Sentiments Attributes Fabric Desirable Hateful Despicable

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.”

Should Reason Body Attributes

Author:Rene Descartes

“Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.”

Real Individual Term Ability Groups Health Disease Function Defined Attributes Acceptable Physiological

Author:Rene Dubos

“But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.”

Kind May States Form Left Goal Creative Disease Universal Ill Absence Boredom Gray Formulas Attributes Joyful Penalties Promotion Corresponding Planners Unforeseen Health Promotion

Author:Rene Dubos

“The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.”

Responsible Attributes Genes Interaction Variation Vigor

Author:Walter Gilbert

“People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.”

People Knows Believe Opportunity Brands Consumers Attributes

Author:Bob Iger

“The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.”

Should Kind Different Philosophy Body Causes Five Influence Objects Essentials Perception Medicine Senses Sensations Peculiar Attributes Soma Five Senses

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

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