Behinds Quotes - Page 26

• As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.

  Marc Benioff

  Moving, People, Never Forget

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• Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

  Robert J. Marks II

  Fall, Steel, Balls

  "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

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• So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.

  Isocrates

  Teacher, Race, Expression

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• The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

  Francois Delsarte

  Artist, Earth, Traveller

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• I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

  Jim Croce

  Lost, Left Behind, Left

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• Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Doors, Baffled

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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• Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.

  P. K. Page

  Giving, Vision, Trying

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• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  Macklemore

  Fashion, Creativity, Men

  "ESQ&A: Macklemore on Music, Style, and More". Interview with Jeremy Unger, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Doors, Years, Twenties

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• I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Legacy, Behind You, Said

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• Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’ ‘accidental,’ ‘chance,’ ‘unpredictable,’ are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance.

  Harlow Shapley

  Ignorance, Order, Mind

  HARLOW SHAPLEY (1958). “OF STARS AND MEN”

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• The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

  Timbaland

  People, Would Be, Faces

  "Timbaland Says He's 'Done With Hip-Hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.

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• It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time...

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Change, Stars, Land

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• When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Sunset, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2029, Delphi Classics

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• People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so annoying I cannot tell you.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Thinking, Differences

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• People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Iron, America

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• The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Powerful, Boys

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• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Rain, Writing

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• Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Perspective, Generations

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Important, Exploration

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• Things aren't always what they seem
  You're only seeing part of me
  There's more than you could ever know
  Behind the scenes.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Behind The Scenes, Knows, Seems

  Song: Behind The Scenes, Album: My Paper Heart, 2008

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• I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

  Olivia Palermo

  Girl, Powerful, Father

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• My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?

  Wally Lamb

  Song, Sweet, Laughter

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• In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.

  M. C. Escher

  Lying, Garden, Division

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