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“I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.”

Sun Satisfaction Satisfied Instance Copies

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.”

Matter Minutes Instance Hypothesis

Author:Paul Klee

“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”

Men Wells Littles Deals Ill Wit Instance Satire

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.”

Film Black White Concerned Dresses Instance Tone Black And White Curtains

Author:Julie Harris

“The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.”

Knows Important Facts Asks Theory Possession Instance Score Investigators History Of Science Right Questions

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.”

Thinking Mean Shows Black White Figures Healthy Impression Instance Chiefs Interpretation Black And White Earning Accounting Accountants

Author:Steve Odland

“Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Film Happened Particular Truth Is Evidence Prison Proof Pursuit Instance Release Quests Pudding

Author:Errol Morris

“I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.”

Different Form Shapes Hundred Discovery Instance Spite Different Things Farms Vocabulary Vineyards Always Working Labourers

Author:Joan Miro

“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.”

Long Facts Rooms Doors Tree Property Instance Curious Beginners Overloaded

Author:John F. Carlson

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.”

World Two Moving Faith Force Fear Consciousness Forever Greater This World Instance Primaries Accomplishment Sickness Destructiveness Fear And Faith

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.”

Helping Courses Principles Security Source Function Instance Operations Insecurity Shelter

Author:David

“At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.”

Years Lasts Race History Five Hundred Instance African American American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”

“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

Thinking Life Mind Doe Character Body Action Three Force Behinds Attitude Greatness Personality Driving Mood Instance Pilots Driving Force

Author:Walt Disney

“The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.”

Heart Has Beens War Nations Errors Instance Misfortunes Brighter Sounder

Book:Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)

Source: Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)

“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.”

Way Children Helping Together Numbers Attention Wife Failing Husband Demand Faults Instance Husband And Wife Concentrating Armour Husband Wife

Author:Richard Armour

“So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.”

People Way Giving Feels Moments Motivational Desire Certain Order Waiting Emotion Particular Mets Expectations Instance You Choose Permission Moments In Time

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.”

Giving Trying Done Law Evil Church Goodness Great Things Instance Communism Fascism Worldly I Am Thankful

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them.”

Ifs Doe Different Sometimes Wanted Artist Opportunity Talking Offers Projects Late Albums Productions Work Out Admire Instance 80s Talking Heads

Author:Todd Rundgren

“You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Belief Instance Release Aggressive Unworthy

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.”

“Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.”

Sometimes Matter Seems Fighting Animal Attention Moral Abuse Injustice Cruelty Instance Agendas Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Years Real Taxes Property Instance Estates Property Taxes

Author:Michael Maloney

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”

Ifs Fool Genius Excuse Instance Misunderstood Misunderstood Genius

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.”

Facts Would Be Balance Conscience Accounts Paid Dues Instance Occasions Creditors Debtors Saying Less

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.”

People Want Made Matter Seems Left Trouble Groups Ought Politician Safe Negative Sticks Lists Instance Target Unfair Say Anything

Author:Andy Rooney

“The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”

Pain Awareness Suicide Instance Anguish Prevention Unimaginable

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.”

Ifs Needs Trying Book Guy Clear Cutting Son Definitions Instance Upset My Son Gray Thinker Spectrum Good Guy Hazy

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.”

“In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.”

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.”

Book Body Plans Pages Thirds Instance Titles Dabs

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.”

Mind Firsts Believe Self Spiritual Spirit I Believe Waiting Disease Resources Instance Offering Distress Consolation Quaker

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.”

Believe Past I Believe Honest I Believe In Instance My Past Past Life

Author:Kesha

“When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.”

Knows Feels Ideas Real Together Film Rooms Acting Scene Comfortable Performances Instance No Idea Editors Editing Delivering

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”

Men Country Miracle Noble Instance Despise Artificial Survived Shrinks Aristocracy Dwarfs Dwarves

Book:Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

“While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”

Persons Ends Philosophy Hands Seems Guy Conversation Wave Cards Instance Bites Dense Playing Cards

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.”

People Thinking Writing Hard Reason Used Process Particular Instance Reason Why Programming

Author:Gerald Jay Sussman

“If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?”

Ifs Looks Different Hands Stars Interest Rocks Particular Taste Affair Instance Temples Suggestions Hints Reins Hurrying Personal Interest Foibles Guiding Stars

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.”

“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."”

Two Might Names Given Wind Fame Patterns Bread Instance Thirty Motive Given Names

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.”

Feelings Social Position Gratitude Instance Denied

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.”

Heart Government Life Is My Heart Complaining Instance Protest

Book:The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day

Source: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.”

May Country Hands Share Property Profit Instance Titles Owners Railway Foreign Countries

Book:Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

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