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• I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

  David Henry Hwang

  Growing Up, Hair, Chinese

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• Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

  Ted Chiang

  Lovely, Fundamentals, Levels

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)”, p.52, Vintage

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• Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Religious, Law, Advancement

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• Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

  Robert Hass

  Ideas, Stories, Metaphor

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• Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

  Lisa Randall

  Light, Dramatic, Speed

  "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.

  Margo Jefferson

  Feminist, Doe, Want

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• Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

  Matt Salmon

  Cutting, Government, Choices

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• I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  P. L. Travers

  Thinking, Needs, Film

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• The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Differences, Skepticism

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• Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.

  Michael Parenti

  Fate, Political, Humanity

  Michael Parenti (2007). “Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader”, p.97, City Lights Books

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• Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

  Yuri Milner

  World, Way, Digital

  "How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley" by Michael Wolff, www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

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• What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Morning, War, Moving

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• In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
  On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Future, Uncertainty Principle, Law

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• Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Stress, Ideas, People

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• The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Practice, Church

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.183

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• Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

  Janis Joplin

  Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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• I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

  Noam Chomsky

  Holocaust, Denial, Existence

  "Why pick deluded Chomsky for prize?" by Ted Lapkin, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. June 5, 2011.

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• It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

  James R Newman

  Numbers, Littles, Strange

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• Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Philosophical, Science, Order

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, 1953.

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• A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.

  Erving Polster

  Effectiveness, Growth, Achieve

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
  have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense

  Ravi Zacharias

  Common Sense, Humanity, Atheism

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 10, 2014

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• Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Impact, Environmental, Attention

  Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment Movement, w2.vatican.va. September 1, 2007.

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• There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Drinking, Two, Light

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• What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Use, Moral

  "A Socialist in the Millionaires’ Club: An Interview with Bernie Sanders". Interview with Ames Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. November 20, 2006.

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• The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

  Tariq Ali

  Oil, Principles, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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