Phenomenon Quotes - Page 14

• Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as 1500 B.C. and before. Thousands of people have seen some kind of navigable contraptions in the sky, and some have sworn it under oath.

  Morris K. Jessup

  Years, Sky, People

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• From my studies of old and recent reports, and from direct involvement with several UFO investigations, I have become convinced that there is something real and new behind the UFO phenomenon.

  Bruce Maccabee

  Real, Study, Investigation

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• We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.

  Brad Steiger

  Earth, Planets, Ufo

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• The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Age, Variation, Trojan Horse

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Doe, Ufo, Extraterrestrial

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• I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Reflection, Sight, Doubt

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• The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Liars, Artist, Law

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Real, Flying, Visionaries

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• Paulinho is like a black Lampard, but also makes headed goals. He is a phenomenon.

  Juan Roman Riquelme

  Goal, Black

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• Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.

  Roger Schank

  Thinking, Curiosity, Important

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• Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.

  Uri Geller

  Simple, Important, Answers

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• Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Interesting, Fame

  "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

  Terrence Howard

  Glasses, Hot And Cold, Want

  Interview with Time magazine, 2006.

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• In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Giving, Stupidity, Credit

  "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.

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• We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

  Ringo Starr

  Laughing, Car, Looks

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• Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

  Hyman Minsky

  Giving, Needs, Normal

  Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

  David Berlinski

  Thinking, Nazism, Conditions

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

  William James

  Courage, Attitude, Fear

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• So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.

  Karl Marx

  Evil, Historical, Development

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• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

  Kurt Sutter

  Country, Character, Desire

  "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.

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• As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In a strange way it's part of a democratization of society. Although religious observance seems more common these days, it's not that people who did not go to mosques have started to go to mosques. I don't know anyone in Turkey who's become a born-again Muslim. It's a question of individual choice, and it does not stop the organic secularization of Turkish society, which carries on regardless.

  Andrew Mango

  Religious, People, Safety

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• Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Business, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Animal, Psychics

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