Phenomenon Quotes
623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors
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To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with biology. It is…
— Rajneesh
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Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in…
— Alvin Francis Poussaint
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With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,…
— Steven Rose
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking…
— Frederic Joliot-Curie
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as:…
— Werner Erhard
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And…
— William Shatner
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The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are…
— M. Scott Peck
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...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not…
— Unknown Author
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
— Albert Einstein
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I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
— Ti-Grace Atkinson
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into…
— Arthur Hopcraft
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in…
— Andre Bazin
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture…
— Dorothea Lange
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One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur…
— Unknown Author
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In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To…
— Rajneesh
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Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
— Milton Friedman
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All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate…
— Barack Obama
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Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do…
— Unknown Author
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
— Rajneesh
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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy,…
— Rajneesh
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,…
— Douglas Hofstadter
Who Wrote These Phenomenon Quotes
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