Indication Quotes - Page 6

• Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

  Scott Joplin

  Light, Musical, Shy

  Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing

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• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

  Michael Schudson

  Silly, People, Culture

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.242, Routledge

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• The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

  Edward de Bono

  Gambling, Use, Statistics

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

  Hippocrates

  May, Statistics, Appearance

  Hippocrates (1900*). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that's all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Character, Worry

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• My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

  Jasper Johns

  Differences, Space, Different

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• So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day - maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know: this is good, not bad, news for the program... Lots of people logging on and signing up on the very first day... is an early indication that it’s going to be fine, that plenty of people will sign up for the first year of health reform.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, Obamacare, People

  "Good Glitches". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. October 1, 2013.

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• The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Cutting, Reality, Poetry Is

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• I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

  Charles Lyell

  Long Ago, Southern, Thames

  Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

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• We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

  Spike Lee

  Names, People, Black History

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Evil, Judging, Important

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

  Julian Robertson

  Inheritance, Adjusting, Helping

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• That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Reality, Political

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.13, Verso Books

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• If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Hands, Unhappy, Use

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• A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Order, Law

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

  Kohta Hirano

  Calling, Fool, Left

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• Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

  Donald A. Norman

  Simple, Design, Locks

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.64, MIT Press

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• Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

  David Shenk

  Skills, Limits, Talent

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• To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

  J. Michael Bailey

  Mother, Boys, Hey

  "The Science Of Sexual Orientation". "60 Minutes" with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. March 9, 2006.

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• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Thinking, Church

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• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  William H. Hastie

  Hopeful, Planning, Social

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• Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tools, Gains, Masonic

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• He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.

  Lucas Malet

  Sea, Pyramids, Numbers

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• We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been off Earth. We have always been on a piece of Earth in space. We survive only as long as we can breathe the air of Earth, drink its waters, and be nourished by its foods. There is no indication that as humans we will ever live anywhere else in the universe. Place, too, is continuously being transformed but only within its own possibilities.

  Thomas Berry

  Reality, Air, Space

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.92, Crown

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