Phenomenon Quotes
623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever…
— Angela Davis
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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently…
— Daniel Dennett
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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
— Arthur Erickson
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's…
— Arthur Erickson
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp…
— Frantz Fanon
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
— Sam Harris
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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
— Heinrich Heine
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
— James Hillman
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the…
— Edmund Husserl
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I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity…
— Akshay Kumar
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
— Rush Limbaugh
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I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be…
— Rush Limbaugh
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It is a truly powerful phenomenon when a brand makes a stand for what it believes in.
— Simon Mainwaring
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
— Thomas Mann
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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
— Ernst Mayr
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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
— Bette Midler
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It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's…
— Unknown Author
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
— Marilyn Monroe
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer:…
— Maria Montessori
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It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
— Alan Moore
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For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in…
— Christopher Moore
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that…
— Viggo Mortensen
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