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• Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Political, Use

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• We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dark, Light, Endless

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Views, Media, Years

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• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Play, Favors, Lasts

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• Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

  Camille

  Sex, Night, Light

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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• Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

  Susana Martinez

  Numbers, Sometimes, Republican

  "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Assails Romney's Immigration Views" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

  John Katzman

  School, Technology, Cost Benefit Analysis

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• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

  James Meade

  War, Oxford, Mind

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• All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Perfection, Flying

  William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”

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• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  David Wolpe

  Prayer, Self, People

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• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  Harold Ross

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

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• By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.

  John Gofman

  Epidemiology, Track, Nuclear

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• This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Mindfulness

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• It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, People

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• Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

  Oliver Sacks

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Seeing Voices”, Vintage

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• As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA`s best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

  Michael Morell

  Jobs, President, United States

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

  Sigmund Freud

  Essence, People, Understanding

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• I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

  Howard Pyle

  Inspiration, Illustration, Way

  Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Events, Action

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Finals, Culture, Individual

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

  Otto Rank

  Acceptance, Men, Self

  Otto Rank (2012). “Beyond Psychology”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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