Workings Quotes
147 quotes by 135 authors
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend…
— Adolf Hitler
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It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall…
— Scott Carpenter
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The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do…
— Gary Talley
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As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of…
— Stephen Batchelor
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
— Charles Krauthammer
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There was a time when I feel that I need to take time to know more about the industry, the workings of it. I was…
— Katrina Kaif
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For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a…
— Sandra Postel
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood…
— Jami Attenberg
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Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought,…
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
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This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation,…
— Viktor Schauberger
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Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
— Michael Patrick King
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When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
— Steven Pinker
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Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in…
— Suzanne Braun Levine
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating…
— Umberto Eco
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the…
— Aaron Klug
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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they…
— Hugo Black
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By mastering both aspects of our being we remember not only how to think, but what to think. What I'm clear about now is that…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind…
— Gilbert Ryle
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