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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. — Martin Heidegger
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. — William James
I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would… — Tommy Lee Jones
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. — Kevin Kelly
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. — Kevin Kelly
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. — Kevin Kelly
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in… — Jacques Lacan
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing… — George Lucas
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of… — Ivan Pavlov
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. — Martha Plimpton
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its… — Colin Powell
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents… — Jeremy Rifkin
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy… — Jerry Saltz
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. — Hans Selye
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me… — Lewis Thomas
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host… — Gore Vidal
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. — Simone Weil
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson
The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. — George Orwell

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