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“Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.”

“There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.”

Humans Heart Two Eye Human Beings Arms Walking Ears Mirrors Legs Rhythm Chests Heartbeat Binary

Author:Paul Auster

“Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.”

Sometimes Practice Imagine Members Scales Contemporary Division Imagine That Versus Register Binary

Author:Paul Lansky

“If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.”

Ifs Two Philosophy Helping Courses Sex Shapes Logic Western Assumption Binary Western Philosophy

Author:Alison Assiter

“I've seldom met somebody who is merely satisfied working alongside siblings. You typically have a binary outcome. They either are miserable and everyone starts to hate each other, which is an unfortunate outcome that we see too often, or it is really incredible, and there's tremendous energy and mutual respect, and the parties work really well together. I've found that the middle road typically doesn't happen.”

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Author:Ivanka Trump

“When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.”

Thinking World Way Looks Philosophy Bigs Guy Evil Winning Dangerous Complicated Versus Good Guy Big Movie Binary Complicated World

Author:Gavin Hood

“Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.”

Remember Choices Trump Approach Clinton Binary Unlawful

Author:Chris Christie

“There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.”

“Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.”

Ifs Thinking Different Use Might Term Rich Identity Notion Gender Dimensions Homosexual Spectrum Symbolic Binary Might Use

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.”

People Trying Sometimes Body Seems Born Deals Violence Female Males Extremes Gender Medical Establishment Transgender Psychiatrist Critique Continuum Binary Intersex

Author:Judith Butler

“I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this is a binary choice between one candidate, Donald Trump - who is pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-conservative justices of the Supreme Court - and another candidate, Hillary Clinton, who has an opposite view on all of those issues.”

“We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.”

Humans Moving Identity Expression Boxes Feminine Masculine Continuum Binary

Author:Gloria Steinem

“My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.”

Views Generations Notion Feminist Gender Activist Better Off Dropping Trans Theorists Continuum Binary

Author:Susan Faludi

“In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery.”

Thinking Has Beens Stills Country Facts Wanted America Courses Term Return Slavery Profound Notion Bounds Refuse Consideration Twins Binary Fracture

Author:Steve Erickson

“Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.”

Thinking Trying Looks Kind America Left Religious Independent Paint Atheist Complicated Believer Secular Portraits Versus Lenses Comprehensive Critique Binary Either Or

Author:Ross Douthat

“In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.”

“The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.”

Thinking Mean Culture Progress Fashion Equal Female Construction Femininity Pointing Twisted Binary Female Body

Author:Lorna Simpson

“My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.”

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Author:Amandla Stenberg

“We need to have points of view from lots of different types of people. People who have different backgrounds, different parts of the world, who maybe perceive gender differently. We're in this time where we have social media, we have the ability to share so much, that I think that we need to create more space and more opportunity for people that are just outside of the typical cliched binary roles.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I think there are probably too many hedge fund managers in the world, as well as active fund managers. The hedge fund industry is very efficient. We see a lot of hedge funds open and a lot close. It's very binary. You either succeed or fail in the hedge fund world. If you succeed, the amount the managers make it beyond most people's wildest dreams of wealth.”

Thinking World Dream Wealth Failing Succeed Fund Binary

Author:Martin Gilbert

“I don`t think Hillary Clinton is going to support any of the things that you stand for if you`re a Republican. I`m going to go fight for the principles and the solutions that I believe in and the candidate that I think is so much more likely to put those into law because I know Hillary Clinton won`t do that. It`s a binary choice. It is either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. You don`t get a third option. It`s one or the other. And I know where I want to go.”

Thinking Believe Choices Fighting I Believe Support Republican Solutions Clinton Binary

Author:Paul Ryan

“If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged to pretend. But, you're also obliged to not pretend." So you have access to both sides, if you will. It's never a pure binary thing, but you can pretend. If you have total agency as a performer, then both are at your disposal.”

Behavior Binary

Author:Richard Maxwell

“I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.”

Problem Age Gender Teenager Exploring Masculinity Femininity Binary Undefined

Author:Ayshay

“Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that.”

Personality Illness Binary

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I think normative or binary lenses for seeing bodies often crush or delegitimize other felt physical experiences of being and desiring. I've found that such inadequate ways of understanding bodies can be - but aren't always - based on biological perspectives.”

Thinking Understanding Perspective Crush Inadequate Binary

Author:Jenny Johnson

“A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.”

Ifs Jobs Film Levels Audience Working It Adequate Binary

Author:George Lucas

“And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.”

People Film Moving Decision Directors Red Blue Faster Tone Culmination Binary Yes Or No

Author:Jason Reitman

“I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.”

Use Pay Economy Program Linux Binary

Author:Linus Torvalds

“The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.”

Way Reading Simple Numbers Virtue Good Things Errors Complicated Simplest Representing Binary

Author:George M. Whitesides

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”

Ordinary Relation Creator Supposing Binary Supposing That

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.”

“Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.”

Eye Jesus Church Modern Building Strange Gray Metals Bells Robots Claws Lasers Binary Androids Church Bells

Author:Russell Brand

“He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.”

Political Rose Construction Theoretical Accumulation Artifice Binary

Author:Zadie Smith

“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.”

World Stars Share Gold Let Me Blue Compare Gravity Peers Orange Lenses Starlight Binary Tilt Turquoise

Book:Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

Source: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

“...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?”

“Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”

Mind Culture Memories Generations Members Code Binary Synapses

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.”

Ifs Lucky Ten Six Luck Investing Nine Traders Binary

Author:Peter Lynch

“Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.”

Thinking Mean Two Matter Together Science Energy Existence Conditions Pure Add Separation Zero Separating Minus Binary Peeling Antimatter

Author:John Updike

“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”

World Player Birth Computer Piano Nightmare Ancestor Grandfather Refuge Binary Yes Or No Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing Player Piano

Author:William Gaddis

“Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.”

Opposites Absence Masculinity Femininity Binary

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm”

Thinking States Objects Programming Algorithms Binary

Author:Alexander Stepanov

“There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.”

Littles Female Males Productivity Code Taoism Cripples Binary Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.”

Feels Ideas Facts Motivation Common Theory Perception Understood Obvious Math Dues Mathematical Unfortunate Adequate Presentation Reluctant Binary

Author:Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.”

Knows Persons Body Moving Can Do Relation Infinite Chairs Binary Vicissitudes

Book:The Two Kinds of Decay

Source: The Two Kinds of Decay

“Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!”

Ideas Genius Criticism Myth Symbols Domain Binary Janus

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.”

Thinking Humans Emotion Brain Fashion Perception Unique Neurons Binary

Author:Bill Gates

“Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.”

Crisps Binary Yes Or No

Book:Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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