Modes Quotes
159 quotes by 133 authors
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
— Aristotle
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of…
— Charles Babbage
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Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
— David Byrne
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.…
— Billy Campbell
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes…
— Hannah Arendt
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion…
— Fritjof Capra
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All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are…
— Bruce Schneier
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of…
— Lord Kelvin
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Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical…
— James Jeans
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
— Benjamin Rush
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep…
— Joseph Story
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War…
— Franklin C. Spinney
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We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
— James R. Schlesinger
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Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience…
— Norbert Elias
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At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the…
— Charles Hard Townes
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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