Bundles Quotes - Page 4

• Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, May, Facts

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.83

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• This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.551

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• Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Intellectual, Brain, Expansion

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• You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Writing, Discovery, Inspire

  "The Art of Living".

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Library

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

  Carl Jung

  Accomplished, Has Beens

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
  Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

  Pete Rock

  Rap, Humble, Hip Hop

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• You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Ubuntu, Empathy

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• For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Historical, Actors

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sexy, Age, Needs

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  Joseph McCabe

  Law, Atheism, Way

  "The Existence of God". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1913.

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• Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

  Kate Braverman

  Children, Fire, Talking

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Conservatism

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• When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.

  Linda Gregg

  Weed, Dark, Light

  Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press

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• Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Men, Reform

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.14, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.

  Howard Adelman

  Men, Goal, Community

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• A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

  Velimir Khlebnikov

  Children, Poetry, Understanding

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• One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Tolerance, Herbs

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• We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

  Frances Harper

  Soul, Humanity, Unity

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• I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Fear, Mirrors, Hair

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• Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

  Barbara Mertz

  People, Loving Someone, Disease

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• There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.

  Linda Hogan

  Dream, Islands, Stories

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• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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