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“If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.”

Ifs Thinking World Spiritual Term

Author:Michio Kushi

“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.”

“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.”

Ifs Giving Real Political Passion Language Force Term Lines Written Fashion Constitution Rely Documents Reign Political Systems Binding Compact Generalities Between The Lines

Author:Alex Kozinski

“Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .”

Matter Care Purpose Three Energy Term Space Mass Definitions Divided Space Time

Book:Liber Kaos

Source: Liber Kaos

“If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Body Seems Term Interest Pleasure Views Support Expression Productions Point Of View Superiors Patriarchy Reproduction Powerlessness Maternity Physical Strength

Book:Women & madness

Source: Women & madness

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.”

Found Term Justice Criminals Meant To Be Criminal Justice Were Meant To Be

Author:Barbara Neely

“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.”

“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”

World Needs Long Country Term Party Effort Practice Successful Draws Corruption Valuable Around The World Long Term Heritage Foreign Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

“There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.”

Term Islam Terrorism Islamic Islamic Terrorism

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.”

Men Mean Long Doe Term Quality Talking Novel Issues Six Structure Size Collections Spiders Graphic Objections Spider Man Graphic Novels

Author:Alan Moore

“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”

World Done Bigs Stuff Term Loss Accepting Higher Demand Gains Strategy Distance Celebrate Hills Valleys Tolerate Short Term Crossings Halt Stagnation Big Stuff

Author:Neal Stephenson

“When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.”

Long Term Leader Roles Teacher Long Term Designer Subtle Executives Stewards

Author:Peter Senge

“How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Term Minutes Ready Prison Punishment Innocent Penalties Murderer Death Penalty Not Ready Meaning Life Incorrigible Safeguarding

Author:Jesse Ventura

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.”

“I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.”

Want Term Class Theory Concepts Notion Rejection Meaningless Forte

Book:The Listening Composer

Source: The Listening Composer

“The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.”

Humans Long Term Church Consciousness Catholic Sacred Species Retreat Catholic Church Human Species Inception Vatican Ii

Author:Julian Jaynes

“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.”

Heart May Mean Suffering Universe Term Born Teach Security Planets Practicals Doctrine Fifth Prey Abolish Idealist Sentient Beings

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.”

Ifs Knows States Reason Whole Term White United Race United States Late Concepts Tricks Colony Descent Whiteness White Race

Author:Tim Wise

“The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.”

“My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.”

Firsts Home Term Son Protect Ten My Family Instinct University Privacy Sunday My Son Mail Away From Home Protect My Family

Author:Cherie Blair

“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”

Thinking Should Individual Speak Social Term Class Groups Benefits Philosophical Hardship Comment Social Groups

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.”

Use Hate Term I Hate Killers Ipads

Author:John C. Dvorak

“Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.”

Made Problem Term Introduction Discussing Blunders

Book:My world line; an informal autobiography

Source: My world line; an informal autobiography

“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.”

Moments Stories Problem Seems Happens Universe Next Term Materials Myth Nuclear Being True Fantastic Visuals Sunset Epic No Problem Splendor Fusion Rotation Nuclear Fusion

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.”

“Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".”

Mean Today Term Serious Intellectual Depth Discussion Topics

Author:Genco Gulan

“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”

Mean Ideas Philosophy Character Term Particular Elements Conscious Notion Instance Enjoyed Logical Interpretation Schemes Endeavour

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Should Doe Use Language Term Currents Chinese Greek Territory Scholar Venture Propositions Peril Alphabet Uncharted Treading Uncharted Territory Chinese Language

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.”

Long Has Beens Lying Term Christianity Western Long Term Trends Decline

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.”

Long Care Mother Term My Own Practice Example Cost Impact Bills Illness Medical Income Long Term Shocking Personal Experiences Terminal Medical Care Terminal Illness

Author:Judy LaMarsh

“The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.”

“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”

Ifs Kind Long Book Term Needed Pages Prepared Response Library Long Term Rejects Devices Be Prepared Printed Storage Proliferation Schemas

Author:J. C. R. Licklider

“Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.”

Trying Wells Term Scientist Dialogue Format Euphemism

Book:Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

Source: Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

“I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.”

People Mean Spirit Found Individual Term Listening Speech Islam Spokes Strongest Mockery Spirited Malicious Mean Spirited

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.”

Social Term Benefits Deny Revolutionary Acceptable Savages Social Systems

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and seperate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?”

Happens Purpose Understanding Term Levels Fields Fundamentals Deeper Physics Particles Theoretical Theoretical Physics

Book:Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements

Source: Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements

“There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.”

Ifs Term Tasks Joyful Lifting

Author:Mike Tomlin

“I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.”

Years Use Past Three Term Happened Concerned Years Ago Worried Assumption Three Years Avoiding Continuation Letdowns

Author:Mike Tomlin

“The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence”

Long Term Results Influence Long Term Concrete Phases Cognitive Cognitive Science Cybernetics

Book:The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Source: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

“Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.”

People World Bits Term Objects Paint Derision

Author:Stella Vine

“One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".”

Wells I Can Film Three Term Views Months Aspect Point Of View Lifestyle Hanging Out Three Months

Author:Hugo Weaving

“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”

Art Sometimes Form Next Given Term Steps Taken Type Edges Experiments Traditional Artistic Labels Simplest Next Steps Steps Forward Avant Garde Outdated

Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

“On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.”

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development”

Long Real Lying Social Term Economic Development Long Term Providing Electricity Economic Development Amenities

Book:Electricity for a developing world: new directions

Source: Electricity for a developing world: new directions

“The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.”

Mean Language Term Responsibility Politician Meaningless English Language Absolutely Nothing

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.”

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