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“There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.”

Whole Aspect Fierce Imaginative Lyrical Practicality Empiricism

Author:David Whyte

“It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.”

Years Has Beens Whole Able Faces Fighting Goal Hurt Aspect Athlete Boxes Rings Hardest Fighter Boxing Mentality Hardest Thing Through The Years

Author:Cara Castronuova

“...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Philosophy Whole Accepting Moral Focus Huge Aspect Criticism Remains Following Admire Followers Founders Infidelity Packages Inconsistency Negation

Author:Michael Shermer

“I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.”

Thinking Way Whole Social Aspect Vulgar Networking Social Networking Social Network

Author:Trent Reznor

“People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.”

People Ifs Want Giving Whole Jobs Steps Break Masters Giving Up Aspect Down And Whole Life Irrational Day Jobs

Author:Tony Robbins

“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”

World Way Ideas Matter Whole Law Universe Force Rooms Results Movement Aspect Harmony Caught Disappear Conception Host Glimpse Governing Equilibrium Fourier

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.”

Ifs Whole Culture Natural Strange Reader Aspect Stress Details Reasonable Bizarre Arbitrary

Author:Gregory Bateson

“The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.”

Whole Memories Space Aspect Longing Bombs Cosmos Time And Space Fragments Bursting

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.”

Ifs Men Years Different Whole Women Born Ten Aspect Performances Sooner Or Later Best Performance

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.”

Ifs Kind Sometimes Whole Artist Environment Worst Aspect Seven My Favorite Liberating Favorite Artist

Author:Ashley Bickerton

“You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?”