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“The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.”

Real Active Corporate Owners Mechanism Governance Involvement

“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”

“We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.”

“All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.”

Mind Humans Made Matter Body Hands Science Simple Perfect Complicated Invention Mutual Devices Human Mind Mechanism Delicate Toys Accurate Human Body Adjustment Intricate Human Hands

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.”

Men Feels Long Soul Whole Able Political Humanity Long Time Endure Wheels Bless Mechanism Strokes Abyss Hammers God Bless Withering

Book:Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

Source: Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Would Be Pure Mechanism Scholar

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.”

Mind Country Might Mystery Approach I Realized Nervous Mechanism Thrilling Nervous System

Book:Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain

Source: Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

Action Law Crime Mechanism

Author:Abdul Kalam

“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”

Made Natural Deals Century Goes On Fundamentals Observation Shock Mechanism Selection Twentieth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.”

Has Beens Helping Jobs Lost Products Trade Assuming Productivity Guarantees Mechanism

Author:Tim Bishop

“I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.”

People Thinking Sometimes Pain Laughing Childhood Survival Defense Mechanism Defense Mechanisms

Author:Andy Dick

“Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.”

Ifs Years Children Winning Hurt Havens Safety Mechanism

Author:Tyler Florence

“My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.”

World Way Whole Kids Fun Defense My Way Destructive Mechanism Breakdown Defense Mechanisms Defence Mechanism

Author:Judd Apatow

“All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.”

Art Made Self Artist Risk Amount Art Is Defense Vulnerable Plenty Mechanism Gestures Self Defense Small Amounts No Sympathy Defense Mechanisms

Author:Steven Erikson

“I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.”

People Way Long Done Shows America Culture Actors Speak Understanding Long Time Rely Mechanism Accents Understanding Why

Author:Idris Elba

“The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.”

Self Science Technology Built Metaphor Mechanism Self Destruct Numbered Days

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.”

Men Giving Shows Humanity Force Modern Flower Series Theology Mechanism Science And Religion Lectures Modern Science Botany

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”

Form Science Values Keys Compare Engines Mechanism Simplest Intricate Calculating Telegraph

Book:Canadian Stories

Source: Canadian Stories

“You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.”

Ifs Knows Different Body Would Be Party Issues Imagine Bottom Congress Controlled Mechanism Controversy Subpoenas

Author:Michael Isikoff

“I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.”

Thinking Humans Law Morality Behavior Ethics More Time Mechanism Human Behavior Morality And Ethics

Author:David E. Kelley

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