Enhancement Quotes - Page 2

• People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Exercise, Knitting, Hands

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• A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

  David Dreman

  Real, Risk, Measurement

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• Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Crazy, Book, Athlete

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Vanity, Law

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Special

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Engineering, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be ‘the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever made’.

  Jessa Gamble

  Children, Military, Mistake

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• The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Keys

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• Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

  William Stafford

  Literature, Flow, Kind

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

  Joe Baca

  Accountability, Needs, Tools

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• An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

  Albert Hadley

  Design, Finals, Fixed

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• Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.

  Barry Goldwater

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Men

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.11, Bottom of the Hill

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• Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

  Aimee Mullins

  Thinking, Body, Hollywood

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• Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement drug...That's one thing no one can ever say about me, you know? That I was a coward and took sports-enhancement drugs, because I was afraid I was going to get my a** kicked in front of millions of people. So anybody out there who said I never had no heart, at least I wasn't a coward.

  B.J. Penn

  Sports, Heart, People

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• Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Competition, Tendencies, Commerce

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.27

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• Noble, breathtaking, captivating, Christ-centered femininity is truly a sight to behold. It's a beauty that does not draw attention to the woman, but to Jesus Christ. It's a radiance that is not dependent upon age, circumstances, or physical enhancements. It's a loveliness that flows from deep within--the refreshing beauty of heaven, of a life transformed from the inside out by Jesus Christ.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jesus, Sight, Heaven

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.21, Harvest House Publishers

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• Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

  Wole Soyinka

  Choices, Culture, Degradation

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• Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

  Jamais Cascio

  Focus And Concentration, Creative, Drug

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• The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.10, New World Library

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• Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

  L.Joe

  Height, Plastic, Surgery

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• I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

  Nancy Grace

  Police, Reform, Shooting

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.

  Ray McGovern

  War, Technique, Allies

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.

  Ray Winstone

  Moving, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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