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“Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All our largest media companies are based on the grant of explicit government monopoly privileges and licenses, or franchises, or subsidies. The government didn't come in after the system was in place, it built the system in the first place.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.”

Thinking Writing Being Human Mexican Being Me Explicit

Author:Francisco Goldman

“I think political situations usually work their way into my writing, but not necessarily in an explicit way. The environment is so chaotic now. There is someone so entirely unreliable in charge, and reliable only in the fact that Thing - I don't say his name - is a pathological narcissist. He's going to do whatever he can to defend himself and whatever will make him look good. That's what matters to him.”

Thinking Writing Political Situation Environment Chaotic Narcissist Explicit

Author:Lynne Tillman

“By creating explicit occasions to invite dissenting viewpoints on a new project, strategy or policy, leaders enable employees to feel that their questions are welcomed and appreciated.”

Leader Policy Strategy Employee Appreciated Explicit

Author:Mary C. Gentile

“Just in the past couple of years, there's been pushback against some of that marketing, as parents have gotten really upset. Now we're seeing Coke and Pepsi kind of shape-shifting. Instead of doing these very explicit marketing deals, they are getting into schools in much more hidden ways - things like My Coke Rewards, where they encourage schools to push their student body to purchase Coke products, in exchange for points that go toward various products for the school. It's a way for these companies to get in front of kids, presented as a form of charity.”

Kind Kids School Past Parent Students Couple Charity Marketing Various Upset Explicit

Author:Anna Lappe

“What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.”

Ifs Giving Mean Body Christ Expression Sacraments Explicit

Author:Karl Rahner

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

Men Life Made Care Weak Idiot Obscure Glitter Explicit Weak Man

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.”

Humans Moral Models Command Vivid Explicit Persuasive

Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'”

Philosophy Evil Arrogance Motto Explicit

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.”

Knows Men World Doe Natural Fields Perception Setting Settings My Thoughts Explicit

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.”

“I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”

Men Way Writing Long Stories Adventure Feminist Love Story Hardest Winner Loser Hardest Thing Explicit Writing Love

Book:The Two of Them

Source: The Two of Them

“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”

Feels Faces Half Novel Sentences Finished Jungle Malice Dinosaurs Explicit Obscene Punctuation

Author:Werner Herzog

“Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.”

Faces Fate Achievement Constant Triumph Torture Passive Explicit Forbearance

Book:Stories of a lifetime

Source: Stories of a lifetime

“The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.”

Writing Firsts Real Form Language Term Fiction Elements Originals Narrative Operations Significance Distribution Revealing Explicit Perversion Enigmatic Contamination

Author:Brion Gysin

“He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.”

World Needs Two Done Hands Loneliness Divine Breaths Lips Passing Passings Dust Isolation Nevertheless Reminders Krishna Explicit Two Worlds Nightingales

Author:E. M. Forster

“Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Sometimes Helping Action Process Memories Conscious First Time Patient Analysis Unconscious Explicit

Author:Norman Doidge

“We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the King of England, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from God. The keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the Declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.' Religion and God are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.”

“The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.”

People Trying Humans Persons Two Problem Suffering Force Human Beings Vision Failing Planets Ought Fit Unique Expectations Guilt Stereotype Neurotic Explicit Good Marriage

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”

Memories Consciousness Essentials Conscious Who We Are Unconscious Explicit Implicit

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”

Christian Father Names Expectations Tongue Infant Explicit Philip Great Expectations Family Name

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.”

Thinking Knows World Clear Genius Fingers Slips June Subtlety Nuance Explicit Posse

Author:Anais Nin

“In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations”

Country Poor Promise Corporations Officials Sophisticated Unspoken Explicit Bribe Implicit Poor Countries Corporatism

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”

Imperfect Translations Explicit

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.”

Character Facts Vision Environment Seeing Photograph Awe Explicit Prioritize

Author:Burton Silverman

“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”

May Has Beens Said Science Process Understanding Nature Stage Evolution Scientist Notion Primitive Essays Paradigm Refined Explicit Implicit Developmental

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.”

Firsts Said Universe Accepting Atheism Atheist Explanation Materialism Professors Compelled Genetics Materialistic Explicit

Author:John Lennox

“Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.”

Mind Humans Realizing Cat Enormous Limitation Human Mind Simplest Inability Explicit Infuriating

Book:The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

“In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.”

Source: Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

“Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.”

Conflict Method Explicit Conflict Resolution Suppressing Resolving Conflict Workplace Conflict

Book:Zen and creative management

Source: Zen and creative management

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.”

Knows World Giving Believe Philosophy Turns Language Views Clear Depends Gains Accounts Philosophical Structure Mediums Discovering Our Thoughts Turn-on Systematic Explicit Clear View

Author:Michael Dummett

“A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.”

Should Pleasure Rooms Teaching Masters Suggestions Explicit Sly

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

“The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.”

Giving Humans Law Certain Individual Human Beings Divine Authority Killing Exception Death Penalty Explicit Limited Time

Author:Saint Augustine

“The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.”

Faces Values Simple Powerful Pay Moral Principles Power Rich Happenings Shining Administration Kicks Boots Grandchildren Explicit Moral Values

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The Caring for Climate initiative is fully aligned with our own explicit commitments, which reflect our respect for society in which we operate, respect for the environment, respect for the future generations. Climate change must be addressed through mutually beneficial collaboration and multi-stakeholder channels to be effective ultimately.”

Environment Generations Commitment Climate Climate Change Caring Collaboration Initiative Beneficial Future Generation Explicit Stakeholder

Author:Jose Lopez

“Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.”

Humans Made Challenges Attention Greater Inspire Shapes Judgment Economics Productive Consideration Ethical Behaviour Provoking Explicit Human Behaviour

Author:Amartya Sen

“The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.”

People Whole Changed Constitution Explicit Farewell Address

Author:George Washington

“A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.”

Want Trying Dream Language Tongue Peter Explicit St Peter

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.”

Way Wells Mean Language Sentences Statements Defined Description Speakers Accurate Grammar Intuitive Explicit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”

Way Has Beens Horror Approach Originals Genre Visuals Visionaries Explicit Horror Genre

Author:Michele Soavi

“Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.”

Helping Names Existence Office Commitment Titles Assumption Grants Elites Exotic Robes Explicit Implicit

Book:Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

Source: Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

“I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.”

Want Needs Made Real Whole Age Groups Radio Albums Edits Explicit

Author:Vanilla Ice

“Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.”

“For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.”

Has Beens Stills Shows Earth Hate Father Mistake Hell One Day Ill Damn Gates Have Faith Explicit

Author:Kid Cudi

“Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess”

“Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.”

Government Power Media Balance Constitution Social Media Profession Checks Journalism Supposed To Be Corporate Journalist Accountability Protected Explicit Supposing

Author:Amy Goodman

“Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.”

Giving Should Has Beens Two Names Figures Reader Amount Bed Data Autobiography Explicit

Author:Robert Silverberg

“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”

People Matter Purpose Turns Suits Twists Pledge Explicit

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]”

Source: Religious But Lost

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