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“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.”

Men Art Given Technology Greater Violence Habit Drug Prove Experiments Plague Initials Psych Specifications Irritants

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.”

Art Care Greater Prove Gains Stronger Greed Take Care Riches Painter Incentives Renown Greater Things

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.”

“Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.”

Sometimes Energy Greater Talent Genius Prove Determination Temperament

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.”

People Way Desire Actors Greater Stage Prove Inclination

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.”

Sex Greater Fans Prove Female Dating Bills Prove It

Author:Alan Jay Lerner

“Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.”

Ifs Trying Stills God Would Be Greater Worst Prove Philosophical Philosopher Occasions Absurdity Demonstration There Is No God

Author:Thomas Huxley

“In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.”

Want Moments Together Purpose Greater Special Prove Performances Bother Why Bother Greater Purpose

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.”

Wells Known Greater Development Prove Mathematics Well Known Precision Theorems Integers

Book:Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936

Source: Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.”

Men Humans Littles Remember Lying Passion Cities Greater Century Battle Prove Daughter Weight Property Human Life Temporary Burned Decorum

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.”

Ifs Kind Problem Courses Interesting Greater Prove Philosophical Victim Jew Trials Features Traitor Nazism Accusation Blackmail Stalinism Questions Asked False Accusation

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe”

People Thinking Trying Believe Earth Universe Numbers Greater Prove Limits Infinite Size Sand Grain Multitudes Exceed Grains Of Sand

Author:Archimedes

“That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.”

Important Real Problem Attitude Greater Prove Important Things Meaningful Being Me Being Mean

Author:Umberto Eco

“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.”

Ifs Long Wanted Father Easy Challenges Results Greater Changed Prove Accounts Lifestyle Competent Prove Myself

Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.”