Entity Quotes

• We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Independent, Science, Interdependence

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Preparation, Analysis, Measurement

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• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Real, Organization, Body

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• For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "The Limits of State Power in Africa: A Case Srudy of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Book by Georges/Sembe Bakaly (p. 14), 2006.

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• Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

  Michael Shermer

  Soul, Body, Existence

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company

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• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Political, Democracy

  "The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to". Book by David Boaz, 1997.

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• When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dream, Expectations, Political

  "The Impact of Marcus Garvey" by John Henrik Clarke, www.raceandhistory.com.

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• What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

  Ratan Tata

  Ethics, Left Behind, Term

  "Talk Asia" with Sara Sidner, transcripts.cnn.com. April 13, 2011.

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• True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "'This Is The Buddha's Love' Melvin McLeod interviews Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Sunset, Heart

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• The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Literature, Immediacy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Two, People

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• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Running, Block, Book

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• Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

  James Lovelock

  Inspirational, Dance, Evolution

  "Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist". Book by James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2000.

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• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

  Martin Heidegger

  World, Physics, Modern

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Nonprofits

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• Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

  Mickey Gilley

  Records, Pay, Causes

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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, Intelligent, Enemy

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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  Barbara Smith

  Unique, Black, Important

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• For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

  Bill Frist

  Men, Western Values, Unions

  "Frist Opposes Gay Marriage". www.nytimes.com. June 30, 2003.

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• I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Culture, Way

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• Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

  John Polkinghorne

  Believe, Reality, World

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