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“Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.”

People Problem Earth Process Animal Attitude Plant Response Environmental Medical Engineering Pollution Susceptible Plants And Animals Genetic Engineering Mistreatment Medical Problems

Author:Michael Fox

“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.”

Ifs Believe Wells Wanted Asks Space Support Struggle Saws Greater Air Possibility Wind Machines Stronger Speed Conquer Gentleman Aviation Receiving Predictions Adapted Susceptible

Author:Jules Verne

“Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.”

Inspirational Children Motivational Dies Education Environment Particular Shapes Perceive Susceptible

Book:Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

Source: Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

“If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.”

Ifs Has Beens Self Strong Strength Rulers Powerless Mischief Susceptible Strong Self

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.”

Humans Littles Facts Suffering Dies Causes Accepting Endure Pessimism Negativity Stem Susceptible

Author:Jason Mraz

“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

Men Littles Facts Choices Enjoy Fashion Loneliness Gay Pressure Addiction Illness Mental Illness Isolation Embarrassing Gay Men Susceptible Pitfalls

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.”

“Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reasons for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. The roiling mystery of the world can be analyzed with concepts (this is science), or it can be experienced free of concepts (this is myticism). Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is the denial-at once full of hope and full of fear-of the vastitude of human ignorance.”

World Believe Humans Reason Spirituality Consciousness Mystery Ignorance Concepts Rational All Time Recognition Denial Discussion Enterprise Mysticism Mystic Susceptible

Author:Sam Harris

“Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.”

Littles Different Missions Humanitarian Enterprise Diplomacy Susceptible Misinterpretation

Author:Alvin Adams

“Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.”

Humans Kind Seems Beautiful Mistake Personality Genes Susceptible Multicultural Edifice Uncanny Flipped Mutants Human Personality

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.”

Life Is Capacity Obvious Boredom Concentration Susceptible Obvious Things

Author:Geoff Dyer

“Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.”

Men Humans Long Character Would Be School Night Walks Common Crime Stronger Property Nine Rational Code Capability Efficiency Pillow Obsolete Susceptible Tenure Catalogues

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.”

Force Church Religious My Own Susceptible Shelley Religious Music

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.”

Knows World Humans Made Political Religious Simple Liberty Criticism Denial Transformed Susceptible

Author:Alexander Herzen

“There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.”

Kind Problem Water Conditions Planets Skins All Kinds Nervous Nerves Frogs Susceptible Disappearance

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.”

Company Products Habit Advantage Customers Users Susceptible Competitive Advantage

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”

Democracy Fronts Susceptible Scapegoat Electorate

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.”

Humans Ideas Desire Strong Groups Fashion Susceptible Fads Contagion Strong Desire

Author:Michael Mauboussin

“Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.”

People Knows Long Found Understanding Compassion Break Long Time Upset Unexpected Viruses Nobody Knows Break Out Susceptible

Author:Alan Alda

“Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.”

Soul Reality School Quality Stage Objects Sight Excellence Proof Certainty Immortality Provoking Tested Floats Susceptible Leaves Of Grass

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.”

Needs Mind Humans Human Beings Perfect Results Divine Access Flaws Human Mind Engagement Engaging Ruling Recognise Not Perfect Susceptible Interacting Divine Will

Author:Mark Durie

“No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.”

Ifs Men Reason Capable Evidence Democratic Conversion Delusion Collapse Susceptible

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.”

Art Theory Contrary Improvement Works Of Art Outstanding Susceptible

Author:Karl Popper

“Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.”

Stills Might Realization Uncomfortable Peculiar Unnatural Susceptible Provoked

Author:P. D. James

“The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.”

Persons Doe Self Victim Convinced Self Confidence Vulnerable Propaganda Telling The Truth Falsehood Susceptible

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.”

Way Faces Your Face Beard Good Way Susceptible Velcro

Author:Demetri Martin

“I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.”

People Persons Doe Fall Causes Gains Negative Weight Patterns Discrimination Damage Unhealthy Overweight Susceptible Public Image

Author:Maria Kang

“Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.”

Doe Air Limits Vote Regions Conditioning Emissions Susceptible Co2 Air Conditioning Co2 Emissions

Author:Judith Curry

“The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.”

People Danger Circumstances Aspect Susceptible

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”

Art Might Susceptible Conceptual Art Compression

Author:Brian Christian

“I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.”

Might Sides Deals Knowing Conditions Effects Majors Medical Medication Susceptible Side Effects Genome Medical Conditions

Author:Eric Topol

“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.”

People Knows Way Trying Reason Stories Certain Memories Cases Taken Needed Court Reason Why Testimony Susceptible Unreliable Eyewitnesses Court Cases

Author:Pete Docter

“Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.”

Ifs Knows May Remember Memories Happened Mom Red Dresses Grades Copies Grandfather Recalls Adaptation Your Mom Susceptible

Author:Pete Docter

“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”

“Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.”

People Ifs Worry Rocks Becoming Ass Not Interested Gross Clown Susceptible Indie Rock Worrying About Money

Author:Justin Vernon

“I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.”

Tears Susceptible

Author:Richard Hell

“Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason.”

Ifs Way Should Different Reason Use Doubt Bears No Doubt Guts Odds Expertise Susceptible

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.”

Thinking Should Ideas War Christian Stars Exercise Feminist Tales Interpretation Multiple Great Work Susceptible Plausible Nutty

Author:Cass Sunstein

“Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to be upset when things don’t go their way, overly focused on the future, and unable to bounce back easily. Inflexible people are susceptible to anger, distress, and depression. Surrendered people go with the flow, shrug it off when an unplanned situation happens, and tend to be happier, more lighthearted, and resilient. They remember to exhale during stress.”

People Knows Way Happens Remember Causes Situation Events Flow Stress Details Focused Upset Outcomes Distress Resilient Bounce Susceptible

Author:Judith Orloff

“Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.”

Different Research Susceptible Market Research

Author:Phil Keoghan

“I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.”

Jobs Guy Cutting Fields Emotional Ego Normal Athlete Expertise Susceptible Negotiating

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were no different from other peoples, that the United States was just as susceptible to viciousness and corruption as any other nation. In this regard, at least, Jefferson's vision has clearly won the day.”

Said Different States America Nations United Vision Roles United States Special Regard Corruption Providence Susceptible

Author:Gordon S. Wood

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”

World War Problem Today Peace Military Solutions Anti War Antiwar World Today Susceptible Idaho Presidents Day Horror Of War

Author:John F. Kennedy

“America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.”

America Winning Poverty Effects Policy Creating Election Financial Engaged Tension Exploitation Palestine Susceptible Gaza Undermining Hamas Boycott Radicalism Ostracism

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.”

Knows Men Believe Has Beens Made Self Done Culture Understanding Situation Fascism Oppressed Totalitarianism Susceptible

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.”

People Believe Done Law Social Moral Cases Judgment Slavery Slave Familiar Analysis Unjust Susceptible Fugitive Unethical

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.”

People Thinking Looks Ideas Reason Stuff Prejudice Radio Progressive Mail Rhetoric Susceptible Parrots Talk Radio

Author:Roger Ebert

“Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.”

Humans Unions Human Society Susceptible

Author:Tony Kushner

“All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.”

Knows Men Mind States Reason Influence Particular Sick Importance Nervous Nervous System Sustaining Susceptible Sick Man

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

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