Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection… — William A. Dembski
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to… — Douglas J. Feith
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett
People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the… — Lauren Oliver
I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy… — Tim Hawkins
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating… — Toni Packer
Truth is an all-freeing mechanism. — L. Ron Hubbard
Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves… — Jen Hatmaker
It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism. — Charlotte Gerson
We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic… — Jeffrey Bland
To promote the process of European integration, we must improve an institutional mechanism already existing in the European Union, reinforced co-operation, by making it more… — Lionel Jospin
..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter… — Linus Pauling
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism.… — John F. Kerry
When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used… — Mike Hernacki
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing… — Bernadette Roberts
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with… — Tim Conway
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. — Tom G. Palmer
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. — Monica Raymund
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in… — Eric Whitacre
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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