Organs Quotes - Page 18

• The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

  George Santayana

  Travel, Character, May

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tunes, Complaining, Monkeys

  During a debate on the Suez crisis, 'Hansard' 16 May 1957, col. 680

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• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  Emile Durkheim

  Art, Political, Sound

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

  George Benson

  Simple, Guitar, Band

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• We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Heart, People, Three

  "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  David Eagleman

  Self, Skulls, Consistency

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Hands, Purpose

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• Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Mind, Weakness

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• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  Walter Rudolf Hess

  Men, Sickness, Humans

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• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  Callie Khouri

  Independent, Like You, Selling

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• A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

  A. C. Cuza

  Blood, Class, Soul

  "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Certain

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• Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Guiding Principles, Reason

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Spiritual, Sex, Mean

  Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  David Price

  Party, Government, Panacea

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• I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

  Donna Reed

  People, Donors, Organ Donor

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

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• I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Writing, People

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• How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Girl, Monkeys, Care

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

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• Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Tissues

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• I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Ukraine, Organization

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• Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

  Ruby Wax

  Sick, Imagination, Brain

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• Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Cells, Cosmos

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

  W. D. Hamilton

  Men, Organisms

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• There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

  Francis Arinze

  Church, Dogma, Used

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