Phenomenon Quotes
623 quotes by 507 authors
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
— Hannah Arendt
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These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.
— Julian Assange
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
— Margaret Atwood
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
— Anthony Bourdain
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When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.
— Christina Aguilera
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the…
— David Cameron
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
— Sidney Altman
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or…
— Robert E. Lee
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would…
— Nikola Tesla
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Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care
— Edgar Schein
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,…
— Susan Faludi
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People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
— Doug Larson
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,…
— Emile Durkheim
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...
— Pope John Paul II
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