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• A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas. And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they're coming to visit or stay with.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, Responsibility, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.

  Leni Zumas

  Art, Thinking, Five Senses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Want, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.

  Astra Taylor

  Country, Fighting, Frustration

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Real, Years, Passing By

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

  Matt Ridley

  Brain, Events, Body

  "8 Surprising Facts About Parenting, Genes and What Really Makes Us Who We Are" by Scott Barry Kaufman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2011.

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• The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

  John Goodwin

  Powerful, People, Needs

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• Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Majority

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there's nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Mean, Thinking, Water

  Source: collider.com

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• When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Upset, Reacting, Minor Things

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There are many levels of organization in nervous systems. Hence we aim to explain mechanisms at one level in terms of properties and dynamics at a lower level, and to fit that in with the properties at the higher levels.

  Patricia Churchland

  Organization, Levels, Dynamics

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. Rebirth is an involuntary process where they seek traction by finding a new body after their subtle mind loses the old one. There are two things commonly said about this. One- there is no evidence for it and two- if there is evidence, what's the mechanism which carries the consciousness from one life to another.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhism, Two, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you're surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn through time different defense mechanisms, and it could be for protection, for emotional, physical, everything.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Men, Emotional, Space

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Agreement, Iran, Order

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  Hal Duncan

  Skins, Identity, Prejudice

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• The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern Europe, Poland might just as well be affected. In this case we are dealing with mechanisms that we do not control. We need to change that.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Europe, Might, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back to that. Marc Maron had me on WTF making fun of me about that when I first opened for him. I had this very kind of hip-hop bravado to me, and I realized that now I've let some of that go in my stage presence, that maybe that was because I had dropped that completely from my life, and when I got onstage I sort of rekindled it. And I think now that it was perhaps a defense mechanism that was left over from those days, which I think is kind of interesting.

  Moshe Kasher

  Fun, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Thinking, Terrible, Defence

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

  David Crystal

  Relief, Excellent, Swearing

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• Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Dream, Running, Men

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

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• Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Our Relationship, Humans

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• As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

  John Dewey

  Government, Organization, Democracy

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.175, SIU Press

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• For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

  David Cronenberg

  Wall, Dark, Artist

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• I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aims, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Design, Decision

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