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“I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.”

Thinking Giving Important Differences Creation Relation Everyday Individuality Creator Reflecting Nationality

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.”

Thinking Problem Happens Love You Personality Lucky Relation Who I Am Recognition Working It Love Your Work

Author:C. C. H. Pounder

“I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.”

Thinking Mean Character Today Worry Havens Relation Twenties Plot

Book:Howard Hawks: Interviews

Source: Howard Hawks: Interviews

“I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.”

People Thinking Commitment Relation Not Sure

Author:Sonam Kapoor

“I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.”

Thinking Important Choices Relation Unions Partners Russia Strategic Ukraine European Union Nato Membership Revive Bulgaria

Author:Georgi Parvanov

“When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.”

Thinking Firsts Law Lines Blood Serious Relation Defense Violation In-laws Blood Relation

Author:Emily Yoffe

“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

“I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.”

Thinking Use Technology Dangerous Relation International Expertise International Relations

Author:Wes Boyd

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”

Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.”

Thinking Needs Individual Speak Relation Oneself Superiors Latter Mutual Cooperation Inferiors Speak The Truth Reciprocity Mutual Respect Prevarication

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.”

Thinking Stills Philosophy Written Subjects Amount Relation Method Enormous Statements Confusion Clarity Contradictory Marxist

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.”

“I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Christian Used Opportunity Belief Religious Deals Students Relation Instruments Theology Christian Faith Religious Belief

Author:William A. Dembski

“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?”

Ifs Thinking Should Interest Relation What If Coincidence Pseudo

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.”

Thinking Has Beens States Opportunity United Race United States Relation Race Relations

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.”

Thinking Different Country Nations Natural Space Influence Increase Relation International Tendencies Pursue International Relations Different Countries

Author:Narendra Modi

“Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...”

People Thinking Sometimes Matter Reason Whole Facts Order Sex Pleasure Objects Relation Notion Sexuality Reason Why Mutual Theoretical Matter Of Fact Objections Procreation

Author:Alan Keyes

“I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.”

Source: The private Albert Einstein

“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.”

Thinking Men Earth Citizens Relation Independent Valuable Time To Think Independent Women Better Man Valuable Things Fraternal Better Woman

Author:Samuel Gompers

“I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.”

Thinking Way Two Literature Streets Relation Presses Monarchy Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Anthony Holden

“I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Believe Whole Would Be I Believe Wife Brother Relation I Believe In Whole World Awful Brothers And Sisters Marrying Polygamy

Author:Brigham Young

“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.”

Thinking Years Humans Littles Character Song Humanity House Bits Perfect Our Lives Little Bit Relation Relate Human Relations Nudge

Author:Corey Taylor

“It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.”

Thinking Men Natural Creation Objects Degrees All Things Relation Regard Egotism

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.”

People Thinking Children Two Sometimes Duty Protect Married Madness Relation Saved Bores Love Each Other Away From Each Other

Book:Short stories

Source: Short stories

“My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.”

Thinking Writing May Has Beens Book Born Normal Relation Prepared Substitutes

Book:Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen

Source: Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen

“Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.”

Thinking Believe Littles Hands United States Policy Relation Canada Foreign Policy

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"”

Thinking Writing Looks Doe Different Body Form Sound Voice Successful Pages Tools Relation Your Body Loud Spoken Word Toolbox

Author:Phil Kay

“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”

Thinking Persons Country Whole White Race Vision Racism Claims Relation Fog Slow Down Race Relations Impediments Whole Truth

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Mean Long Whole Sex Records Events Judging Ought Devil Relation Busy Finished Sexism Judged Right Way Inaction Arabian Small Changes Memorandum

Author:Gertrude Bell

“The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Courses Sex Race Areas Relation Realms Rapids Race Relations

Author:Barack Obama

“With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.”

Thinking States Whole Government Simple Cases Understood Relation Former Department Latter Federal Government Foreigners Subordinates

Book:The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

Source: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

“If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.”

People Ifs Thinking Doe Helping Stories Bigs Next Pay Millions Media Position Relation Killing Rounds Ads Traffic Viewers Bad People Public Relations Financing Payoff Turned Off

Author:Charlene Li

“I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.”

Thinking Technology Machines Relation Architecture Landscape

Book:Antoine Predock, architect

Source: Antoine Predock, architect

“I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.”

Thinking Knows Giving Culture Race Audience Car Materials Relation Bars Candy Race Relations Depiction Placement Candy Bar

Author:Manny Farber

“A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Looks Boys Feet Sky Relation Look Up Touched Feet On The Ground

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.”

Thinking World Way Ideas Facts Church United Common Practice Members Relation Regard Sacred Translate Profane

Author:Emile Durkheim

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.”

Thinking Knows Needs Kind Play Seems America Past Order Black One Thing Connections Relation Historical Determine Who We Are Our Past

Author:August Wilson

“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.”

Thinking Should Reason Law Desire Simple Events Illusion Relation Repression Repressed

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.”

Thinking Life Is Sex Fiction Strange Relation Jane Austen Great Women

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.”

“Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.”

Thinking Way Mean Persons White Nice Becoming Bird Tough Let Me Relation My Way This Day Honey Race Relations Crow

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.”

Ifs Thinking Made Matter President Environment Economic Broken Relation International Engines Nutrition International Relations Abraham Economic Systems Health And Nutrition

Author:Rainn Wilson

“I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it, if he does, individually - and that is that, in human relations, particularly sexual relations and so on, the person you might most trust and feel most comfortable and easy with isn't necessarily the person your heart is going to fall for.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Heart Persons Doe Might Fall Easy Lessons Comfortable Relation Human Relations

Author:Robert MacNeil

“I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.”

Ifs Thinking Made Guy Evil Numbers One Thing Goes On Relation Lists Captains Drs Caves Luther Public Relations Blunders Fortresses Nemo

Author:David Letterman

“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Thinking Reality Today Clear Produce Theory Scientist Relation Mathematics Structure Experiments Insane Wander Thinker Sane Equations Franklin

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.”

Thinking Different Form Relation Pairs Trousers

Author:Mason Cooley