Inherently Quotes
274 Inherently quotes by 241 unique authors
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In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s…
— Amy Jenkins
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Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the…
— Susan Sontag
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Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense,…
— Michael Crichton
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
— George Plimpton
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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we…
— Derrick Jensen
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[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining…
— Douglas Adams
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The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view…
— Terry Eagleton
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There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people…
— John Scalzi
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Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable…
— Jean M. Auel
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I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I…
— Tim Gunn
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I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable…
— Dan Barker
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Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly…
— Richard Rohr
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Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The…
— Starhawk
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And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the…
— John Green
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There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The world is an inherently unfair place.
— Haruki Murakami
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All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
— John Green
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I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a…
— Veronica Roth
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Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
— Richard Dawkins
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...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.
— Christopher Moore
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But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently…
— John Green
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