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Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.”

People Should Trying Facts Young Science Term Brain Elements Mathematics Mere Obvious Proof Logical Shocking Subtlety Euclid

Author:Oliver Heaviside

“Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.”

“The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?”

“The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots.”

Way Mean Use Christian America Political Term Religious Expression Currents Bigotry Accurate Hostility Civics Cleansing Bigots Containment

Author:Jay Sekulow

“Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.”

Book Christian Term Religious Believer Magazines Editors Nuts Stable Remarks Commentators Reviewers Old Life

Book:Under God

Source: Under God

“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!”

People Thinking Use Today Term African American Dislike African American Women

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

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

“The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.”

Use Language Voice Term Natural Possibility Graves Traditional Tendencies Passive Misunderstanding Grammar Describing Verbs Adjectives Nouns Passive Voice

Book:Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

Source: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

“Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.”

Term Calling Highest Spokes Newton

Author:Chaim Weizmann

“I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.”

Men Term Christ Water Walks Darkness Fishing Worms Stalking

Book:The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction

Source: The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction

“People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.”

People Thinking Character Found Difficult Term Audience Producers Cheer Think Of Me

Author:Shelley Long

“Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.”

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.”

Long Motivational Running Term Leadership Pay Standing Strategy Individuality Being Yourself Long Runs Standing Out Short Term Fitting

Author:Seth Godin

“The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.”

Science Term Progress Revolution Offers Achievement Research Rational Progressive Programmes Reconstruction Methodology Scientific Revolution Overtaking

Author:Imre Lakatos

“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”

Thinking Life Made Said Energy Term Definitions Come Up Missions Copies Mars Carbon Compounds Molecules Vikings Replicate Metabolism Replication Definition Of Life

Author:Cyril Ponnamperuma

“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.”

Source: The Concept of Mind

“My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.”

Mind Names Term Our Lives

Author:Max Roach

“I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Use Reality Politics Term Community Watches Speech Constitution Ideology Free Speech Free Market

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.”

Thinking Term Speech Models Thoughtful Categories Framework Intentionality

Author:Wilfrid Sellars

“The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Together Moving Term Talking Rights Design Stones Aim Foundation Human Rights Drawing Boards Engineering Inches Phases

Author:Mary Robinson

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

Way May Whole Language Term Natural Simple Identity Elements Various Tricks Data Native Bags Compatible Native Language

Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

“The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.”

“Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”

People Thinking Different Joy Term Theory Evolution Claims Categories Like Love Theory Of Evolution

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.”

People Way Sometimes Play Stories Term Watches Saws Fans Horror Passionate Producers Horror Fans

Author:Tobin Bell

“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.”

Littles Culture Term Economy Changed Development Labor South Folks Traditional Clinging Industrialization Modernization Mechanization Urbanization Antebellum

Author:C. Vann Woodward

“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”

Knows Humans Made Reason Term Work Human Beings Groups Judgment Organization Workers Rate Length Relative Sole Promotion Surveillance Fallibility Retention

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.”

Looks Country Age Wish Term Example Aging Stuck Maturity Braces Going For It

Author:Cyra McFadden

“It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.”

Today Term Principles Environment Essentials Organisms Coins Geography

Author:William Morris Davis

“The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.”

Character Term Relation Promotion Public Relations Vogue

Author:Nathan Huggins

“The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.”

Knows Littles Moving Fall Term Common Audience Comedy Brave Appreciation Complicated Ass Lowest Be Brave Bananas Slipping Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Mel Brooks

“I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.”

Kind Facts Artist Term My Own Identity Okay Accepted Who I Am

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.”

Together Term Exes Not Friends

Author:Adele

“AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.”

Men Feels Hard Sex Term Sleep Responsibility Safe Scared Active Aids Terrified 80s Sexually

Author:Michael Stipe

“Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.”

Different Term Acting Wrestling Screws Explosions Screw Ups

Author:Roddy Piper

“My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they're getting. I think it's more fun to watch something when you're discovering it as you go along.”

Thinking Littles Whole Stories Shows Able Film Fun Term Watches Audience Narrative Discovering Episodes Anthology Short Films

Author:Louis C. K.

“In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.”

Years Helping Sides Term Deals Struggle Happened Effects My Family Enjoyed Help Me Right Time Pills Medication Side Effects Formative Years Hiatus

Author:Michael J. Fox

“My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't like extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.”

Thinking Bigs Parent Voice Term My Own Mom Let Me My Mom Testament Opinionated

Author:Mandy Moore

“As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn't been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She's got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.”

Humans Sometimes Character Pain Term Quality Situation Comedy Special Changed Drama Adults Painful Deeper Extremes Actresses Cruz Painful Situations

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I like about flying is that I feel like I can really concentrate. I used to write many things, and many ideas for my movies belong to this moment where I'm not anywhere specifically in terms of time and space and geography. I am suspended, and this suspension fits me very well.”

Feels Writing Wells I Can Ideas Moments Used Speak Sex Term Space Fit Drug Alcohol Flying Dull Time And Space Geography Passengers Suspended Suspension

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”

Firsts Would Be America President Term Periods Obvious Dawn Division American Politics Consensus Partisans Meanness Us President

Author:William J. Clinton

“I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.”

People Feels Term Careers Successful Sweet Pressure Driven Intimate Being Successful Intimate Relationships Very Sweet

Author:Mickey Sumner

“When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.”

Knows Light Term Consequence Advantage Plant Sake Defense Offense Power Plants

Author:Edward Snowden

“We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.”

Ifs Should Force Term Decision Military Internet Computer Happenings Application Military Force

Author:Edward Snowden

“Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.”

Ifs Long Problem Term Internet Succeed Work Out Long Term Glances Going To Work Get Ahead Sideways

Author:Edward Snowden

“You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm.”

Looks Whole Shows Guy Term Doors Fronts Wall Type Holes Vulnerability Paradigm Cyber Front Doors Peeking

Author:Edward Snowden

“With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.”

Wells I Can Play Character Guy Term Odd Shakes Ingredients Captains Leaving Me Me Alone Showing Up Leave Me Alone Stew Captain Jack

Author:Johnny Depp

“I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling.”

People Ifs Thinking Values Choices Three Term Challenges Scripts Storytelling Unexpected

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.”

Way Writing Kind Littles Term Careers Gone Confused Ballads Matching

Author:Mac DeMarco

“The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.”

Thinking Giving Term Needed Presidential Ran Oxygen

Author:Oliver Stone

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