Constituting Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from…
— Herman Boerhaave
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There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish…
— E. T. Whittaker
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
— Thomas Paine
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The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
— George Washington
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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living…
— James Lovelock
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be…
— August Strindberg
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of…
— Jacques Monod
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and…
— Michel de Certeau
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less…
— William Coperthwaite
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,…
— Albert Pike
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A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power…
— Thomas Paine
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The Son is 'Life' (Jn. 14:6) because He is 'Light', constituting and giving reality to every thinking being. 'For in Him we live, move and…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes…
— Karl Marx
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A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the…
— Monique Wittig
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When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,…
— John Berger
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Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance…
— Jean Piaget
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I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Who Wrote These Constituting Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Constituting Quotes as follows: