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“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.”

Soul Given Heaven Quality Harmony

Book:Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post

Source: Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post

“Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.”

World Mind Moments Given Imagination Quality Failing Release

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.”

Helping Use Choices Given Quality Majors Vote Determine Reputation Analysis Links Engines Google Editorials Search Engine

Author:Matt Cutts

“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

Source: In Praise of Idleness

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.”

Believe Long Doe Ideas Self Lasts Belief Given Quality Authority Argument Claims Fundamentals Bounds Superiors Range Liberalism Resorts Conservatism Power Of Ideas

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.”

Giving Firsts Film Used Given Term Quality Technology Independent Extraordinary Access Used To Be Expenses Filmmaking New Technology

Author:Kathleen Turner

“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.”

Ifs Men Hard Enough Lying Given Quality Youth Weakness Shining Drinking Credit Emptiness Host Frustrated Unfortunate Alcoholism Discreet

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.”

World Given Community Cities Quality Century Distinctive Dwellers Rural Communities

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.”

Thinking Given Challenges Quality Leader Tested

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

People Thinking Certain Given Dark Quality Magic Tradition Woods Landscape Realism Yankees Magic Realism Hawthorne Dark Woods

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.”

May Real Given Loss Quality Risk Economic Danger Periods Percent Relation Management Investment Decline Earning Deterioration Economic Change

Book:The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

Source: The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

“The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.”

Giving Mind Wells Given Consciousness Quality Calling Objections

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”

Character Given Forget Quality Praying Highest Purity Unselfishness

Book:The Outlook

Source: The Outlook

“Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.”

People Problem Bigs Given Differences Cities Quality Difficulty Dues Paradise Latin Latin America Slums American Cities Latin American

Author:Jaime Lerner

“The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.”

Light Form Fall Given Dark Results Quality Darkness Areas Locals Tone Affected Inherent Lightness Light And Dark

Author:Nathan Goldstein

“No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.”

Government Given Nations Growth Quality Greater Innovation Management Rate Edges Enthusiasm Commerce Accelerate E Commerce Dubai Quality Management

Author:Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

“I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.”

Asks Given Hours Numbers Quality Novel Pages Fetish

Author:Jonathan Lethem