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“My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.”

Thinking Happens Humanity Social Levels Technology Mom Activity My Mom Plus Psychologist Visualization

Author:Aaron Koblin

“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Years Book Stories Seems Girl Pleasure Levels Talking Boys Wonderful Reader Six Sells Copies Six Year Olds

Author:Emily Rodda

“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.”

Next Loses Levels Effort Enemy Security Stones Bases Complexes Dare Defense Manage Assault Stepping Stones

Book:This Alien Shore

Source: This Alien Shore

“Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.”

Soul Law Levels Music Broken Singing Ears Harmony Beast Heavenly Echoes Disobedience Choir Maniacs

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

Levels Emotion Changed Remains Savages

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.”

World Long Levels Common Planets Abuse Pot Hook Vulgar Cant Astrology

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths”

Men Humans Levels Liberty Progress Dignity Evident Desirable High Level Human Progress

Book:Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

Source: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

“Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.”

Life Is Realizing Levels Destiny Fundamentals Conform Finding Peace

Book:The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

“If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.”

People Ifs World Believe Persons War Would Be I Believe Levels Attention Known Violence Disappear Bangs No War Displeasure Gavel

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.”

“I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.”

Wanted Levels Highest Nba

Author:Larry Bird

“It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.”

People Ifs Kind Matter Levels Like You Degrees Manners Good Man Good Manners

Author:Kate Reardon

“I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Doe Real Ends Sometimes Hard Certain Levels New York Like You Window Storytelling The End Of The Day Puzzles New York Times Cracked Ambiguous Crosswords

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.”

Years Feelings Lost Levels Doubt Despair Miserable Anguish Time Will Tell

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.”

Looks Film Certain Actors Levels Pay Written Amount Thought Provoking Realism Provoking Respectability Cheques

Author:Arjun Rampal

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.”

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Men Firsts Two Important Levels Common Education Teacher Teaching Intellectual Every Man Rise Above

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.”

Levels Movement Possibility Flow Fulfillment Inherent Organisms Constructive

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.”

Want Feels Persons Seems Levels Inferiors Superiority Unimportant Envious Potency Specialness

Book:Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

Source: Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

“Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.”

People Ifs Way May Sometimes Levels Extraordinary Delighted High Level

Author:Robertson Davies

“Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.”

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?”

Two Real Reality Levels Fantastic Realistic Real Ones

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.”

Ifs World Looks Levels Mass Killing Bombs Atoms Warfare Homicide Atom Bomb

Author:Bob Dylan

“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.”

Art Black Religious Prayer Levels Magic Sacrifice Equal Assuming Backgrounds Ritual Religious Rituals Black Art

Author:James G. Frazer

“In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.”

Men Should Humans Humanity Levels Draws

Author:Jacques Maritain

“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.”

Able Political Force Process Decision Levels Conditions Politician Judgment Losing Gains Defeat Iraq Driven Terrorist Capability Artificial Commanders Decrease Good Judgment Timetables

Author:George W. Bush

“Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.”

Ifs Way Doe Found Levels Example Morality Relation Medicine Guilt Proof Punishment Behave Pseudo Allegations

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level”

Lying Levels Hierarchy Tangled

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.”

Years Girl Levels Boys Baby Months Twenties Maturity Sixteen Baby Girl Sixteen Year Olds Maturity Level

Author:Gloria Estefan

“This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.”

Firsts Play Together Lasts Artist Levels Numbers Musician Significant Last Time Cds Legendary

Author:Gloria Estefan

“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

Ifs Different Seems Certain Realizing Space Levels Building Elements Ultimate Towns Endless Block Variety Combination Constituents Building Blocks Puzzling Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.”

Years Stills Levels Boys Millions Figures Highest Global Warming Carbon 1930s Carbon Dioxide

Author:David Attenborough

“I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.”

Age Remember Young Reading Parent Ability Levels Taught Speed Impressed Comprehension Creepy

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.”

Thinking Wells Real Light Beautiful Film Natural Levels Quality Technology Doors Fans Huge Standards Appreciate Access Range Sensitive Filmmaker Digital Resolution

Author:J. J. Abrams

“For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”

Way Ends Political Energy Church Religious Levels Attitude Imagine Groups Members Army Primaries Manifestation Organized Unconscious Fascists Suitable Indirect Mediation Embracing Love

Author:Theodor Adorno

“The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at the most fundamental level ... does not any analysis of measurement require concepts more fundamental than measurement? And should not the fundamental theory be about these more fundamental concepts?”

Should Doe Levels Theory Reflection Concepts Fundamentals Analysis Surprising Measurement Appearing Fuzzy

Author:John Stewart Bell

“I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.”

Thinking Firsts Art Form Political Speak Levels Special Weapons Art Is Details Contrary Radical Revolutionary Humankind Repression Political Power

Author:Joseph Beuys

“Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.”

Has Beens Made Play Form Levels Dangerous Policy Late Cards Chinese Usa Cynical High Level Ussr

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.”

“Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.”

People Looks States Certain Levels Mistake Security Crime Disease Europe Western Britain Deprivation Western Europe

Author:J. G. Ballard

“One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.”

Source: My Study Windows

“Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.”

Men Passion Animal Levels Raises

Author:Andre Maurois

“[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.”

Way Ends Fall Water Levels Sweet Music Is Lows Notes Streams Pool Rapids Margins Refined Whispering Tranquil Moss Trill

Author:John Muir

“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”

Moving Bits Levels Technology Impossible Information Leaving Meaningless Fragments Cyberpunk Personal Information

Book:Burning Chrome

Source: Burning Chrome

“The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.”

Believe Kind Fun Levels Morning Saws Involved Conversation News Function Appeals Blogs

Author:Nora Ephron

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.”

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

May Stills Shows Natural Levels Results Teacher Influence Teaching Capacity Accounts Raises Developing Decline Pupils Good Teacher

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Matter Facts Levels Deals Environment Particular Behavior Conscious Economics Being True Instance Unconscious Organisms Sinking Pragmatic Generalities

Author:Gregory Bateson

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