Best Mechanisms Quotes
144 Mechanisms quotes by 130 unique authors
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Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of…
— John D. MacDonald
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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt…
— Bell Hooks
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If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it.…
— Herb Kelleher
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It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no…
— Chris Hedges
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And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations…
— Michael Polanyi
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Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design…
— Michael Shermer
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
— Wilder Penfield
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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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It's true we have our disagreements on border issues, we have disagreements on trade and related issues, but you don't go invading a country whenever…
— Meles Zenawi
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Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and…
— Michael Hardt
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What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit…
— Ben Katchor
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I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over…
— Howard Zahniser
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A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal…
— Sarah Hall
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
— Garry Kasparov
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Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to…
— Pope Francis
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much…
— Bob Black
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What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms…
— Unknown Author
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John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't…
— Hayley Mills
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Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve…
— Niklaus Wirth
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I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
— Noam Chomsky
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The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
— Toshihiko Fukui
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If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will…
— Edward Bernays
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