Indirectly Quotes
134 quotes by 114 authors
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We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant…
— Hans Arp
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and evil…
— J. J. Abrams
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I…
— George Orwell
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility…
— Jacques Derrida
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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy…
— John F. Kennedy
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I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling…
— Rand Paul
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A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological…
— Karl Barth
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It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany…
— James Byron Bissett
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our…
— Edward Thorndike
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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which…
— Emile Durkheim
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When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by…
— Nelson Algren
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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
— Alfred Marshall
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I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States…
— Bob Lutz
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the…
— Eduard Hanslick
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