The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way.… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.” quote by John H Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1d/john-h-richardson-38485_animal_when-you-see-someone-dying-in-front-of-y_1998991.jpg)
