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I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

Anthony S. Fauci

Running, Disease, Hiv

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The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.

John Randolph Price

Self, Order, World

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When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.

T. D. Allman

America, Republic, Way

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Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Tessanne Chin

Coping Mechanisms, Singing, Just Being

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

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When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'

Mike Vogel

Mom, Sarcasm, Thinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

David Korten

Erosion, Long, Abuse

David C. Korten (1995). “When Corporations Rule the World”, Island Press

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With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

Thomas Carlyle

Distance, Insecure, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

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What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Space, People

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.288, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

Jeremy Collier

Courage, Lying, Brave

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Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Jane Fonda

Survival, Denial, Sometimes

Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

Barbara Walters

Talking, People, Perfect

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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Barbara Walters

Oysters, Used, Found

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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

Anita Loos

Character, Cities, Philadelphia

Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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All the energy in the universe is evenly present in all places at the same time. We don't get energy, we release energy. And the triggering mechanism to release energy is desire. When you have a strong desire to do something, you will always have the energy to do it.

Bob Proctor

Strong, Desire, Energy

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I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

Heath Ledger

Alcohol, Drug, Inspire

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It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Mistake, Too Much, Virtue

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The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

Eve Ensler

Women, Violence, Diminish

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In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

Maurice Allais

Cancer, Credit, Facts

"La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.

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People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

Sarah Schulman

People, Succeed, Made

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as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

Helen Caldicott

Eye, Ozone, Vision

Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

Susan Jacoby

Hands, Organization, Ideas

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The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

Donald Kuspit

Art, Mean, Mirrors

Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

Paul A. Baran

Organization, Decay, Development

Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.5, NYU Press

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To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

Nick Nolte

Xanax, Cutting, Survival

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Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

Catherine Tate

Children, Awkward, Use

"What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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