Dominant Quotes - Page 23

• While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Class, Age

  Peter Kropotkin (2002). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Strong, Fall, Past

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• The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness, health, and wealth…Thoughts become things!...Say this over to yourself and let it seep into your consciousness and your awareness. Your thoughts become things….If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Giving, Secret

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• If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Skeletons, Museums

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Grieving, Self

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• Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Matter

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• Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Perfect, Progress, Titles

  "Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.

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• In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Growth, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

  John Rawls

  Views, Vagueness, Ends

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.485, Harvard University Press

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• Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Play, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

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• I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

  Ross Levinsohn

  Believe, World, Company

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• Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Fall, Suffering

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Rights, Numbers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.

  Joe Pass

  Father, Guitar, Hands

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• Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Brother, Attitude

  "Oliver Stone Tells European Audience on Fourth of July 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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• Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

  Marvin Harris

  Men, Years, Males

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• The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Long, Planets, Trance

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Real, Holiday

  "Gareth Bale: It was a relief when world-record transfer to Real Madrid finally happened". www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2013.

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• The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

  Majid Khadduri

  Islamic, Law, Practice

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• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Opposites, Culture, Today

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• I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

  Marilyn Frye

  Morning, Heterosexuality Is, Class

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Next, Physicians

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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• Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Writing

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.1, Routledge

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• Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

  Warren Buffett

  Minorities, Littles, Earning

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