Modification Quotes - Page 5

• We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Generations, Kind

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• If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Faces, Breaking Down

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• Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Safety, Imagination, Boards

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• The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Simple, Space

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Heart, Circumcision

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• Let's not even talking about chain migration, immigration, which is another trick, but all of these things are designed to penetrate the heart exactly is it has yours so that there can be a modification in the law, a moderation of the law here for this instance, and over here for another instance, and there for another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Heart, Talking, Exactly Is

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mistake, Yield, Example

  Source: libcom.org

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• I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

  Jimmy Carter

  Borders, Half, Palestine

  "Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.

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• It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

  Ross W. Greene

  Problem, Behavior, Whole

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're dealing with very complex systems you're going to get a large variety of behavior which can be interpreted as hill climbing, but hill climbing with a lot of modifications, hill climbing with big jumps occasionally.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Ideas, Climbing

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Grace, Would Be, Patient

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that.

  Barack Obama

  Obamacare, May, Facts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

  Albert Hofmann

  Drug, Magic, Mexico

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

  Prince Charles

  Animal, Agriculture, Community

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• At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Healing, Character, Mean

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