“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.” ChildrenMotherMy OwnCasesSawsHappenedExampleParticularNewsResponseMistreated Author:Mercedes Ruehl
“Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsChildrenPersonsHas BeensThreeIndividualViewsNumbersPsychologyGroupsExampleParticularResearchConcernedPatientBehaveObservingDisappointingSmall NumbersLarge Groups Author:Jean Piaget
“Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.” StatesShowsLevelsEconomyClearExampleParticularDemandConceptsDuesSettlingLabourUnemploymentEquilibriumMarket EconomyKeynesMarket Failure Author:Paul Ormerod
“Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be getting on with bringing them up and setting them a good example. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.” PeopleWorldGivingShouldChildrenRealViewsAttentionQualityKnowingExampleParticularCoupleMarriedDefinitionsExcuseDebateScriptureSettingSettingsGood ExamplesMarried Couples Author:N. T. Wright
“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsIdeasUseBodyMightGirlNiceExampleParticularHairBasketballSizeTeethWeatherHeightObservingPlaying BasketballCurly HairNice Teeth Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.” PeopleChildrenLightEyeNationsMemoriesFictionExampleParticularHabitGayWineDancingProfoundObviousAnalysisRootedPoliteGeographyGreat NationsPublic EyeEssayists Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
“This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.” WorldUsePurposeStrongForceNationsUnitedPrinciplesExampleParticularThreatObligationConformityDeclarationUnited NationsDisputesProhibitionDisarmamentCharterUse Of Force Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.” MeanIdeasPhilosophyWholeCharacterAgeTeachingExampleYouthParticularBearsAimEmbraceOld AgeRelatedPoetry IsPhenomenonConceptionPlatonic Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)
“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'” FeelsTryingKindChildrenReasonRememberFireExampleParticularDiedWineOneselfGenuineNo ReasonDreadIncarnationRecollectionRemember YouRemembers YouAversion Author:Aleister Crowley
“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.” WayDoeSelfFeelingsTurnsProcessMy OwnAttentionBrainConsciousnessCasesExampleParticularSupposed To BeSelf ConsciousForeheadsSelf Consciousness Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.” IfsKnowsFeelsSometimesMomentsFatherPerfectSecretClearExampleParticularGuiltyRight ThingPerfect Father Author:Antonio Banderas
“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.” EndsEyeFormAnimalExampleParticularBalanceEssentialsLateExpectationsBuiltBlindStructureSpeciesEnvironmentalLocalsUpsetSoilFuelToo LateRoutineVegetablesImmenseFossilsExtinctionStewardshipSuppliesFossil FuelEcosystemsBlind EyesImportation Book:Faith in the Public Square Source: Faith in the Public Square
“I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.” TwoUseLinesNovelWrittenExampleParticularPaperDistanceSizeHolesSuperstitiousClipFoldersDistance Apart Author:Philip Pullman
“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.” IfsWorldIdeasStatesDreamAmericaNationsWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesCrazyCarExampleBuildingParticularCitizensMachinesBasesPopulationSignificantUnited States Of AmericaPercentagesWellbeingMedicationAmerican CitizensAffluenceAffluentDepressants Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.” PeopleLittlesExampleParticularOffersProofScalesGlobal WarmingSubstitutesFollowersCreedsDogmaMarxismSucker Author:Paul Johnson
“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.” ThinkingDifferencesExampleParticularPoetSakeFormerLatterPointingProceduresIllustrationAllegory Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.” IfsShouldUseAgeLastsMovingGivenDealsExampleParticularTypeLowsWeightMethodFundamentalsHistoricalPatternsAccurateOddsProjectionExceedFormationMedian Author:Victor Sperandeo
“Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.” FactsProblemSpiritChristChurchTeachingConditionsExampleParticularMembersDecidedFollowingLocalsContemporaryContinuingEnteringFellowshipMembershipDenominationsLocal ChurchFollowing Christ Author:Dallas Willard
“The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.” KindUseRememberReadingHoursCasesTeamSecurityExampleParticularBrokenBattleMembersOfficeTestsCodeMailStaffTechnologicalNational SecurityCouncilSupremacySecurity CouncilMidwayScooters Author:Lawrence Wilkerson
“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.” MenStatesJobsOpportunitySocialChallengesJusticeIssuesOne ThingEconomicExampleFieldsParticularCitizensEqualMajorsSocial JusticeCorruptionAwakeningCentreEconomic SystemsEqual Opportunity Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.” PeopleMayMeanDifferentGroupsExampleParticularAuthorityAcceptedDifferent ThingsTruthfulDocumentsIgnoredDifferent Peoples Author:D. A. Carson