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• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  Oliver Lodge

  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of contemplation, the great Within radiantly unfolds. And in all cases, the eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you: the eye of contemplation.

  Ken Wilber

  Eye, Secret, World

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

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• Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.

  Robert K. Merton

  Views, Order, Temptation

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• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

  Benjamin Rush

  War, Revolution, American Revolution

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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• If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

  Hollis Frampton

  Fire, Nerves, Neurons

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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• When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

  Howard Tayler

  Ideas, Messengers, Be Prepared

  "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.

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• Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

  Louis Leakey

  Religious, Men, Magic

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• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Satisfied, Conqueror

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• I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

  John Fund

  Believe, Careers, Conflict

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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Stars, Father, Night

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Answers, Scientist

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• The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Character, Order, Gaps

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• Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.

  John Engler

  Responsibility, Important, Use

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• Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

  Paul Polman

  Impact, Challenges, Looks

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• Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Moving, Sacrifice, Player

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• William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong case for why we should embrace rather than fear the differences between us.

  Dean Hamer

  Strong, Differences, Autism

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• To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

  Bryan Magee

  Real, Believe, Self

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• How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

  James Payn

  Educational, Judging, Gentleman

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest

  Brooks Johnson

  Running, Stress, Training

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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.

  Martin Fowler

  Views, Littles, Settings

  Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.75, Pearson Education

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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

  Frank Luntz

  Passion, Emotional, Vacation

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• In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

  Alma Gluck

  Voice, Piano, Study

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• If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

  Terry Crisp

  Divorce, Support, Goalies

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