Entity Quotes - Page 24

• Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

  Lewis Thomas

  Animal, Cells, Essentials

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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• I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Religion, Atheism

  "Who is Salman Rushdie?" by Firas Al-Atraqchi, www.mediamonitors.net. November 23, 2001.

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• Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

  Ali Khamenei

  Israel, Middle East, Hideous

  Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir, twitter.com. September 02, 2010.

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• And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have been around for a while, at least since humans first started experimenting with these plants.

  D. M. Turner

  Firsts, Natural, Plant

  Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.

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• And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.

  D. M. Turner

  Years, Able, Psychedelic

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• We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself. The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, goes further still: it attempts not just to understand but also to build intelligent entities.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

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• Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Responsibility, Tools, Machines

  "The Americas: The Democratic Left". content.time.com. May 11, 1962.

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• Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

  John Myers

  Believe, Men, Host

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• [T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.

  Murray Rothbard

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

  Justin Raimondo

  War, Party, Reality

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• I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.

  George Carlin

  Prayer, Believe, Sorrow

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Political

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

  Kedar Joshi

  Vices, Consciousness, Vice Versa

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• The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

  Craig Newmark

  Country, Government, Media

  "Citizen Craig doesn't trust 'MSM'". Interviewed with John McManus, www.gradethenews.org. October 25, 2005.

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• I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

  Prince Philip

  Responsibility, Leader, What If

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• The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, Order, People

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• There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spring, Light, Quality

  Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet - Silence”

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• Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.

  Henry Petroski

  Mean, Availability, Doe

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• Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic conditions.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Population, Care

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• When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Done, Doe, Bigger

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

  Ruth Benedict

  Individual

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The majority of companies on this planet are publicly driven engines. They're always the last ones to change. They're not only the biggest polluters, but they're the biggest providers of services for the consumer. Government itself is one of the biggest polluters on the planet. The U.S. military pollutes the planet more than most other entities.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Military, Government, Majority

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

  Raf Simons

  Thinking, Challenges, Dior

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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