Nexus Quotes

• Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Superstitions, Belief

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.17, Clube de Autores

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• The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Nuclear, Weapons, Terrorism

  "Interview with State Department Policy Planning Director Mitchell Reiss". Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.

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• What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Taoism, Yang

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• New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, New York, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 25, 2011

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• Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.

  Gerald Asher

  Real, Writing, Wine

  Gerald Asher (2012). “A Carafe of Red”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

  Andrew Hacker

  Wise, Witty, Thinking

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• There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Mind

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• Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Mind, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Musician, Culture

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cash, Sole

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• Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Science, Unique

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clear

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

  Murray Bookchin

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.

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• What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Eye, Years

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

  James M. Buchanan

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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• Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

  Carroll Quigley

  Character, Individual

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Dimensions, Consciousness

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• Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.

  Wade Barrett

  Past, Wwe, Two

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• The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

  Michele Flournoy

  Night, Organization, Weapons

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• People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Attitude, Technology, People

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• The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Liberty, Cooperation

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.188, Lulu Press, Inc

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• While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Class, Income

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• The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus and of how each force affects the others. Designers often miss a great deal in their educations about the real people who will use and inhabit their work. Thackara astutely illuminates a lot of what designers don't know they're missing.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Real, Technology, People

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• I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, New York, Thinking

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise': Con artists and land developers". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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