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Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution

“A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.”

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.”

“Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.”

May Process Practice Groups Style Design Office Stronger Democratic Employment Atmosphere Firm Typical Participation Workplace Emphasis Scandinavia Design Process

Author:Martin Filler

“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.”

Thinking Humans Speak Kindness Grace Essence Lays Humanism Saving Emphasis Human Kindness Saving Grace

Author:Michael Dirda

“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”

School Culture Education Ought Intellectual Aim Institutions Profound Academic Emphasis Schooling

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.”

Years Art Done Past Individual Deals Produce Tradition Originals Fake Streams Heritage Emphasis Crops Eccentric Knowledge And Experience Individual Work

Author:John French Sloan

“If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Able Christianity Share Scripts Believer Accepted Reputation Developing Serving Emphasis Non Believer Developing Relationships

Author:Andy Stanley

“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”

Should Fall Individual Process Wealth Numbers Class Birth Perception Determined Conventional Uniqueness Plato Emphasis Small Numbers

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.”

People Kind Church Modern Theology Trends Drag Justification Emphasis

Author:Robertson Davies

“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.”

Ifs Two Happens Together Weight Emphasis Syllables

Author:James Fenton

“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Thinking Writing Easy Stuff Brain Quality Company Growing Tree Influence Example Findings Sells Marketing Cells Department Exception Trends Publishing Emphasis Ink Brain Cells Illustrating

Author:Jabari Asim

“The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.”

Women Abortion Privacy Womens Rights Emphasis Reproductive Rights Right To Privacy Pro Abortion Pro Choice Abortion

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.”

Ifs Ends Moments Song Interest Lines Strange Sentences Not Sure Rhyme Interiors Emphasis Rhyming Playing Around

Author:Joanna Newsom

“It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.”

Real Easy Teach Emphasis Prohibition Rabbi Torah Real Strength

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”

“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.”

Has Beens States Philosophy Values Position Importance Remains Determined Priorities Primaries Substance Realms Superiority Emphasis Estimating

Author:Manly Hall

“The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.”

Needs Enough Care Taken Benefits Importance Wages Emphasis Caretakers

Author:Chad Urmston

“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.”

Thinking Use Order Sound Lines Degrees Instruments Paint Musical Patterns Theme Passages Emphasis Hints Musical Instruments Vivaldi

Author:Nelson Shanks

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

Doe Past Moving Knowledge History Learning Aspect Leap Emphasis Novelty Selective

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.”

Ifs Lasts Truth Is Abundance Affirmation Emphasis Rumor Scarcity Veracity

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.”

“The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.”

Actors Illusion Performances Rationality Emphasis Dilemma Theatrical Undermining Brecht

Book:From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism

Source: From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism

“The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.”

Ifs Needs Reason Suffering Water Simple Technique Unnecessary Emphasis Shamanism Deep Water Unnecessary Suffering

Author:Terence McKenna

“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”

Wells Enough Together Used Hours Half Sea Special Materials Rivers Patterns Fishes Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Dozen Emphasis Feathers Whips Fur Vests Midges

Author:Jack Ohman

“The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.”

Philosophy Practice Meditation Sitting Down And Formal Emphasis Meditating Concentrating Sitting Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.”

Philosophy Meditation Finding Yourself Emphasis Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.”

Needs Humans Lines Company Focus Products Achievement West Bottom East Emphasis Bottom Line Human Relationships Westerners Affiliation

Author:Daniel Goleman

“I put heavy emphasis on the characters.”

Character Comedy Heavy Emphasis

Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans

“My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.”

Firsts Literature Husband Late Accounts Emphasis Widows Tailors Milton Parallelogram

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.”

Firsts Hard Religious Lines Atheism Particular Positive Atheism Squares Propositions Emphasis Preference Monument Graphic

Author:John Paul Stevens

“Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.”

Knows Self Sometimes Young Suffering Strong Millions Eating Diets Our Society Disorder Strong Women Young Women Emphasis Eating Disorder Dieting I Am Strong

Author:Tipper Gore

“Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”

Knows Age Asks Lost Civilization Old Age Useless Emphasis

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

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

“Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.”

Needs Form Loss Simple Essentials Constitution Extraordinary Practicals Arrangements Emphasis Inaugural Address

Book:Looking Forward

Source: Looking Forward

“Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”

Reading Accents Emphasis Punctuation

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.”

Trying Action Waiting Effort Morning Missing Youth Materials Aging Clock Reaching Afternoon Emphasis Terrific Unnatural Flowering Belittle Breathless

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.”

Race Emphasis Wrong Things

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

Facts Home Age Community Five Media Acceptance Percent Old Age Experts Sixty Emphasis Ninety Nursing Nursing Home

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.”

Knows Black White Racism Emphasis

Book:Report from part two

Source: Report from part two

“I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more.”

Looks Pay Attention Complexes Photographer Pay Attention Take Time Viewers Emphasis

Author:Stephen Shore

“But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.”

Memories Recalls Emphasis Wreaths

Book:In the Absence of Angels: Stories

Source: In the Absence of Angels: Stories

“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Important Remember Certain House Bits Numbers Technology Too Much Feet Danger Civilization Important Things Assuming Faster Civilized Emphasis Gadgets Defective

Author:Jacquetta Hawkes

“That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.”

Thinking Needs May Littles Long Country Order Interest International Lasting Desirable Emphasis

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.”

People Way Firsts Looks Has Beens Focus Talent Constant Theme Emphasis Reminders

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.”

Has Beens Wonder Creativity Too Much Teaching Fit Organization Innovation Conservative Suits Conform Emphasis Creativity And Innovation

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”

Thinking Important Language Silence Communication Silence Is Emphasis

Author:Marina Abramovic

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