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“Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.”

Age Left Imagination Teach Records Theory Genius Philosophical Invention Peculiar Construction Venture Passed Away

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.”

Seems Happens Next Left Particular Theory Capitalism Fulfilled Prognosis

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.”

Ifs Left Sea Theory Rivers Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Lakes And Rivers

Author:Izaak Walton

“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”

Ifs Humans Long Has Beens Enough Would Be Left Generations Theory Ultimate Human Life Previous Generations

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.”

Helping Left Realizing Theory Reader Wings Humble Fighter Smoke Strings Marijuana Modest Left Wing String Theory

Author:Lubos Motl

“Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out.”

Left Causes Theory Mountain Halls Hypothesis Lifting Left Out

Author:James Dwight Dana

“Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.”

Giving May Mean Made Able Left Theory Keys Ought Ears Notes Bars Holes Mathematical Tunes Strings Architect Twisted Beam Workmen

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.”

“Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.”

Way Persons Ideas Feelings Reality Individual Left Understanding Race Focus Conditions Theory Offers Racism Intention Critical Discrimination Racist Framework Bad Ideas Biased

Author:Dean Spade

“We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.”

Firsts Left Speak Sides Study Century Theory Speech Abuse Twenties Strategy Committed Professors Excess Free Speech Speaks Out Suppression Reluctance

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.”

Two Left Creativity College Theory Months Innovation Independence Competition Rewards Curiosity Conformity Collaboration Application Schooled Two Months

Author:Dale J. Stephens

“I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.”

Ifs Film Left Imagination Theory Cinema Fallen Subconscious

Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be traced back to its owner. But, amazingly, despite police spending tens of thousands of man-hours administering these laws ... there is not even a single case where the laws have been instrumental in identifying someone who has committed a crime.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Law Left Hours Cases Crime Theory Scene Gun Police Committed Spending Despite Owners Identifying Registration Licensing

Author:John R. Lott Jr.

“If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.”

Ifs Names Left Fields Possibility Theory Amount Models Mathematics Lists Fancy Finite Constraints

Author:George Friedman

“In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the struggle, whether you call it 'syndicalism' or 'anarchism' or, at the time, 'social democracy', eventually 'Communism', these were different theories of struggle. But all of them shared a basic understanding that the people...experience exploitation, they experience oppression, but they're not prepared to rise up.”

“I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.”

Fall Left Ability Theory Betrayal Propaganda

Author:Tony Blair

“Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role as giving them as accurate a theory as he could of how capitalism works, which would also show them the reasons why it needs to be abolished and replaced by a freer and more human form of society.”

Way Needs Giving Humans Reason Shows Form Left Roles Saws Theory Higher Capitalism Reason Why Accurate Replaced Human Form

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.”

Children Desire Left Given Records Plans Economic Theory Our Children Debt Inheritance Stimulus Unemployed Insatiable Misguided Economic Theory

Author:Rick Perry

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

Has Beens Art Left Objects Theory Works Of Art Tag Price Tag

Author:Alexander Pope

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