Modifying Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and…
— Gerald Brenan
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the…
— Charles Lyell
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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life…
— Orison Swett Marden
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I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is…
— Clay Aiken
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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already…
— William Temple
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because…
— Andre Bazin
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Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to…
— Walter Russell
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Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring…
— Mark Batterson
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I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them…
— Mike Figgis
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising…
— Li-Young Lee
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable…
— Philip Jones Griffiths
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We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out…
— Leo Ornstein
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Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the…
— Thomas Szasz
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If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or…
— Aleister Crowley
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It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,…
— Harlow Shapley
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the…
— Edward Thorndike
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