Underlying Quotes
305 Underlying quotes by 267 unique authors
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Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.
— Eoin Colfer
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He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
— Terry Pratchett
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Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause…
— Deepak Chopra
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In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a…
— Charles Yu
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Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile…
— Neal Stephenson
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the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,…
— Barack Obama
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I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
— Deepak Chopra
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
— A J P Taylor
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Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive…
— Jeffrey Skoll
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When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was…
— Isadora Duncan
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that,…
— Walter Kohn
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To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning…
— E. O. Wilson
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There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
— Daniel Dennett
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Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for…
— Roelof Botha
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Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of…
— Edward Burtynsky
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The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
— Luis Gutierrez
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The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity,…
— Henry Rollins
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Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten…
— Martin Jacques
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
— Marianne Williamson
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The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near…
— Eric Kandel
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We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.
— Angela Braly
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