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“There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.”

“No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.”

Important Intellectual Ethics Affection Conviction Loyalty Contemplation Accomplished Internals Emphasis

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.”

Mean Lying Events Connected Meaningful Coincidence Emphasis Synchronicity

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.”

“Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.”

“I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.”

World Looks Faces Moving Fronts Projects Mirrors Queens Emphasis Prom Cheerleader Cheerleading Prom Queen

Author:Michael Michele

“We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.”

“Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Littles Reader Beats Tools Relation Musical Crafts Length Logical Editors Pauses Signals Emphasis Manuscripts Punctuation

Author:Annie Dillard

“The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.”

Way Giving Humans Community Differences Education Superficial Citizenship Literacy Emphasis

Author:Norman Cousins

“In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.”

Writing Speak Speech Tests Breaths Sentences Dialogue Speakers Pauses Emphasis

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.”

Giving Light Form Spirit Goal Magic Photography Mass Shadow Ideals Photographer Clarity Proportion Quests Emphasis Simplify Dominating Light And Shadow

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.”

Important Hands Accounts Factors Cycles Emphasis

Author:Eddy Merckx

“We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.”

People Life Business Healing Quality Environment Economic Economics Our Society Materialism Efficiency Emphasis Quality Of Life Ecological Save Mother Earth Business Ethics Environmental Quality Economic Efficiency

Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.”

Happens Models Climate Atmosphere Global Warming Emphasis Vegetation

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.”

“Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our capabilities for development aid, resolutions, and getting allies to cooperate more on what needs to be done in the name of security.”

Needs Done Names President Cutting Security Development Starting Defense Aids Budgets Resolution Allies Capability Emphasis Development Aid

Author:James F. Hoge, Jr.

“Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time, because the moment you become at ease with death you have gained a life that cannot die. The moment you have known death, you have known that life which is eternal.”

Ifs Firsts Moments Death Dies Turns Attention Known Eternal First Time Concerned Ease Emphasis

Author:Rajneesh

“The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.”

Social Business Responsibility Company Economics Management Prosperity Recognition Corporate Social Responsibility Emphasis Corporate Social Responsibility

Author:Tony Blair

“The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.”

World Way Looks Art Facts Evil Cases Perspective Depends Optimism Backgrounds Good And Evil Pessimism Emphasis

Author:William DeWitt Hyde

“The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.”

Important Problem Lying Values Courses Honesty Depends Historical Definitions Chiefs Data Emphasis Omission

Book:Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”

Men Literature Language Nature Classic Emphasis Distribution Disputes Quarrels Man And Nature Family Quarrel

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.”

Thinking Writing Years Moments School Lasts Speak Creative Offers Majors Hearing Last Year Emphasis Creative Writing Stanford Best Moments English Major Angelou

Author:Fred Savage

“I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.”

Grew Grew Up Appearance Emphasis Physical Appearance

Author:Pam Grier

“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”

People Littles Sometimes Humor Inspiration Funny Law Wish President Police Law Enforcement Enforcement Emphasis Observance

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.”

Way Believe Wells Political Opportunity Born Interesting Balanced Emphasis Coverage

Author:Brit Hume

“Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.”

People Way Sometimes Too Much Hot Emphasis Stressful

Author:Caity Lotz

“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented”

Persons Matter Term Building Structure Realization Parks Emphasis Ornaments

Book:Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”

Giving Important Different Matter Views Point Of View Emphasis Different Points Of View

Book:Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail”

Care Medical Command Vietnam Mail Emphasis Medical Care

Author:William Westmoreland

“Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.”

Concepts Photographer Technique Statements Emphasis Justified Simplify

Book:Basic Photo: The print: contact printing and enlarging

Source: Basic Photo: The print: contact printing and enlarging

“Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.”

Different Ends Race Birth Method Lays Seeking Instance Emphasis Birth Control Elimination

Author:Margaret Sanger

“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American.”

Men Made Stills Country Culture Grows Black Growth Secret Blood Movement Ties Subconscious Emphasis Deep Within African Culture

Book:February 1965: the final speeches

Source: February 1965: the final speeches

“One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.”

Order Democratic Emphasis Impunity

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.”

Thinking Inspirational Happens Care School Spiritual Passion Courses Interest Loses Learning Too Much Students Self Improvement Emphasis

Author:Jack Canfield

“It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so. - Thomas Jefferson Too much of our emphases and struggle has simply been in terms of confrontation and not enough recognition of how much spiritual, moral force is involved in the people who are struggling.”

“The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”

World Kind Political Interest Justice Support Economic Social Justice Chosen Historian Emphasis Ideological Distortion Contending

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.”

“In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.”

Mind States Knowing Meditation Awareness Objects Source Listening Return Absolutes Silent Arise Relax Fades Abyss Emphasis Contractions

Author:Adyashanti

“Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.”

Nations History Blood Greatness Pure Myth Enterprise Racist Pool Genes Nazi Emphasis Nobility Eugenics Nazism Nazi Germany Purifying Nordic

Author:Alison Thompson

“Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.”

Strong Violence Media Despair Journalism Emphasis

Author:Dalai Lama

“In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.”

Reality Ought Emphasis

Author:Huston Smith

“Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive”

Ifs Made Magic Late Hip Hop Made It Sensitive Emphasis

Author:Kanye West

“The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on "official" institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.”

People Reality Destiny Sea Media Election Institutions Court Western Supreme Officials Supreme Court Emphasis Parliament Ukraine Western Media

Author:Bob Schaffer

“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”

Mean Has Beens Art Ends Government Political Values Process Products Selfishness Significance Sincere Emphasis Cunning Counterfeit Candid Crafty

Book:Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

“And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.”

Wells Serious Masters Angel Gentleman Ballet Indispensable Emphasis Vans Foreigners Eloquence Good Sense Theatrical Drills Pretence Nymphs Pantomime

Author:Lord Byron

“Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.”

Want Stills Ideas Different Hard Government Aspect Interfere Emphasis

Author:Mike Huckabee

“So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.”

Ifs Wells Looks Faces Religious Justice Issues Modern Morality Concern Emphasis Face To Face

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.”

“Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle”

Plans Failing Minutes Battle Ten Creating Army Useless Emphasis

Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

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