Involving Quotes - Page 9

• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

  Colin Powell

  Helping Others, Everyday Problems, Ties

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• The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers. They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or service. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities.

  Marsha Collier

  Successful, Community, Wish

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

  Al Gore

  Epic, Years, Weather

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• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Suggestions, Stories, Actors

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• I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Boys, Diversity, Evolution

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• No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

  Hilda Solis

  Children, Health Education, Inappropriate

  "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Sec. Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

  Pete Stark

  Morning, Fall, Fighting

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• A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  People, Progress, Age

  Gregg Easterbrook (2003). “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse”, Random House Incorporated

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• For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

  John Shadegg

  Energy, Example, Algae

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• We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Medicine, Rely Upon

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.17, World Scientific

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• I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.

  Jasper Johns

  Judging, Personality, Ordinary

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• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

  Tony Abbott

  Debate

  "Abbott goes to school in Sydney". Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2010.

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• It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

  Emil Artin

  Mathematics, Proof, Mathematical

  Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.14, Courier Dover Publications

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• The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

  Henry M. Morris

  Supernatural Elements, Tests, Impossible

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• When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Children, Home

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5073, NYU Press

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• Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Sacrifice, Reality, Competition

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• I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.

  Liv Arnesen

  Religious, Believe, People

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, United States

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• The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

  Dean Ornish

  Healing, Numbers, People

  Dean Ornish (1998). “Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy”

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• I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

  Michelle Dockery

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Law, Punishment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.524, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Leadership, Recovery

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