Mechanism Quotes

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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This… — Albert Bandura
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict… — Max Born
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the… — David R. Brower
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and… — Sandra Bullock
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they… — Madeleine Albright
People use irony as a defense mechanism. — David Byrne
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in… — Raymond Chandler
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be… — Warren Christopher
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother. — Naomi Watts
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing… — Alan Greenspan
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to… — Maxwell Maltz
You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into… — Mike Mentzer
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course. — Jack Canfield
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas… — Daniel Inouye
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and… — Isaac Asimov
What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the… — Albert Einstein
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it… — Rajneesh

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