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• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Philosophy, Important, Christianity

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

  Lawrence Wright

  Self, Journalism, Flawed

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• Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Healthy, Excess

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• This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Dark, Shining, Fool

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• How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Trying, Machines

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perfect, Body, Posture

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Cogs, Tinkering

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

  Dion Fortune

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Dion Fortune (2003). “Moon Magic”, p.83, Weiser Books

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• The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Bypass

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• Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perfect, Suffering, Degrees

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• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Attention

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• The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

  William A. Dembski

  Want, Resistance, Firsts

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• The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Cat, Government, Games

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• The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

  Warren Buffett

  Patient, Wealth, Efficient

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• People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Doors, People, House

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• I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Laughing, Guy

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.

  Toni Packer

  Memories, Past, Self

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  Andy Dick

  Pain, Thinking, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Healing, Doctors, Body

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• Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

  Tyler Florence

  Hurt, Children, Winning

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• My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Kids, Defense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  Idris Elba

  America, Long, People

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• It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Iraq, Victory

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• When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.

  Mike Hernacki

  Positive, Powerful, Integrity

  Hernacki, Mike “The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success”, Pelican Publishing

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