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“It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.”

“Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.”

Ifs Want Made Stills Process Cases Consumers Satisfying Consumerism Bizarre Immoral Admirable Overconsumption Frivolous

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.”

May Science Known Cases Genes Ignored Inheritance Chromosomes

Author:Thomas Hunt Morgan

“What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.”

Way Helping Home Able Fun Deals Cases Records Albums Help Me Engineers Humiliation Frustrating

Author:John Frusciante

“Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.”

Knows Way Want Trying May Ends Dream Happens Action Asks Energy Cases Huge Cold Waste What You Want Partners Your Dreams Wasting Time Imaginary Rejected Testing Time And Energy Unreliable

Author:Steve Pavlina

“....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.”

Humans Would Be Quality Cases Records Achieve Type Survival Cancer Expected Cures Treatment Quality Of Life Chemotherapy Remission

Author:John Diamond

“Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.”

Enough Cases Conditions Goes On Lucky Disorder Severe Spectrum Bipolar Bipolar Disorder

Author:Stephen Fry

“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”

Ifs Should Wells Has Beens Ideas Play Jobs Stuff Cases Bears Lucky Let Me Shame London Agents Streaks Devastated Let Me Go Seagull Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"”

Thinking Looks Littles Bigs Bits Cases Walking Little Bit Shoes Torture

Author:Charlize Theron

“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”

Humans War Opportunity Names Speak Sides Human Beings Cases Atheist Certainty Convince Righteousness Behalf Blasphemy Proletariat

Book:God Is Not One

Source: God Is Not One

“A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.”

Has Beens Use Age Used Sides Dark Results Cases Effects Cancer Medical Polls Margins Dark Ages Vitamins Side Effects

Author:Leon Chaitow

“I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.”

Thinking Knows Giving Christian Guy Religion Cases Gods Will Pity Thanks That Guy Lama Dalai

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.”

World Cases Poet Ego Musician Extraordinary Dancer

Author:Rajneesh

“Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.”

Deals Brain Cases Special Intellect

Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.”

Thinking Men World Persons Character Reading Results Cases Extremes Betrayal Betray Distrust Knowledge Of The World

Author:Joseph P. Farrell

“Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.”

Cases Progress Rate Assets Exploitation Industrialization Acceleration

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“A rotten case abides no handling.”

Cases Rotten

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.”

Thinking Chance Cases Horror Isolation Powerlessness

Author:Adam Arkin

“me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.”

Three Cases Ego Pronouns

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”

Men Lost Grief Cases Sadness Fine Standards Worthy Dreamer Reverence Another Man Valuation

Book:Autobiographical Writings

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

Men Facts Emotion Cases He Man Judging Essentials Prejudice Anger Pity Appeals

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.”

Lasts Courses Asks Cases Society Century Concern Scientist Forgotten Meaningless Pretext Dizzy Pertinent Pertinent Questions

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”

Men Years Firsts Doe Age Pleasure Grief Cases Depends Sensations First Love Fourteen

Author:Charles Kingsley

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

Ifs Reason Cases Modern Wind Balance Equal Obvious Combination Strings Interpretation Satisfying Composition Orchestra Adapted Modern Music

Author:John Philip Sousa

“The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.”

Eye Turns Cases His Eyes Gray Tobacco Printing Manuscripts Blur Printer

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.”

Long Has Beens Law Cases Forgotten Innocent Guilty

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.”

Process Cases Information Balance Valuable Corporate Sheets Entry Hardware Balance Sheets

Author:Grace Hopper

“I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.”

Thinking Knows Believe Reason Earth Cases Ego Egocentric

Author:Art Buchwald

“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”

Made Two Different Light Three Speak Cases Theory Thousand Prove Discovery Connections Experiments Electric Exaggeration Electric Light

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.”

Cases Clear Wife My Wife Trials Suspicion Divorced Chastity Julius

Author:Plutarch

“In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.”

Cases Fields Disputes Umpires

Book:Basketball: Its Origin and Development

Source: Basketball: Its Origin and Development

“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Writing Age Young Lying Language Cases Forever Impossible Youth Tyranny Obedience Introducing Despotism Implicit

Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.”

Used Cases Military Football Nuclear All Time Officers Suitcases

Author:Al Gore

“there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.”

Giving Trying Made Ideas Happens Differences Steps Cases Justify Leap New Ideas Routes Filling Intuitive Filling In

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Realizing Cases Effects Fixed

Author:David Hockney

“Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.”

Needs Sides Cases Lawyer Maxims

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.”

Law Force Powerful Cases Affection Denial Beans Unrequited Baked Beans

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.”

Mind May Body Cases Humour Fit Madness Illness Temporary Sanity Madness And Sanity

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?”

Ifs Men Cases Relief Calamity

Author:John Tillotson

“I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.”

People Values Mistake Cases Celebration Ardent Rehabilitation Scorned

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.”

Age Spirit Dies Cases Fire Intellect Self Confidence

Author:Margaret Gatty

“The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.”

Wells Hard School Cases Sick Edges Nervous Paris Breakdown Frail Nervous Breakdown School Experience

Author:Jacques Derrida

“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.”

Knows Should Practice Cases Know How Personality Critics Philosopher Organize Cult Moderates Obsessive

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.”

“I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.”

My Own Music Cases Faults Convinced Composer Arrogant Listeners Impatient Verdi

Book:On Music

Source: On Music

“A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.”

Real Justice Cases Events Evidence Real Life

Author:Christopher Darden

“The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.”

Should I Can Accepting Cases Sentences Contrast Minimum Unjust Unwise Guidelines

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.”

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