There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export. — K. V. Thomas Copy Share Image
Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. — Henry Wallich Copy Share Image
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival… — Leilani Munter Copy Share Image
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will,… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The weaknesses and biases of the international mechanisms of accountability make it seem desirable to extend the domain of accountability by empowering… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image