Phenomenon Quotes - Page 26

• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Men, Lightning, World

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.

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• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  African Spir

  Men, Intelligent, Abuse

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  Nas

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

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• One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

  Joseph Silk

  Months, Flavour, Models

  "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

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• A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Believe, Weakness

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• North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Political, Leader

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• Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disaster, Release, Sleeplessness

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• Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Psychology, Doubt

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

  Judith Butler

  Reality, Men, Facts

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• Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

  Alan Greenspan

  Fall, Looks, Causes

  "Q&A with Alan Greenspan: ‘Did we make mistakes? You bet’". Interview with Martin Crutsinger, www.seattletimes.com. October 21, 2013.

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• When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

  Pele

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

  Niall Ferguson

  Historical, Half, West

  Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.36, Penguin

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• At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

  Tiesto

  America, Ends, Electronic Music

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

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• I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Real, Profound, Effort

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• Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Photography, Self, Doe

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• Health is not just a physical phenomenon. We do not just have physical bodies.

  Christopher Penczak

  Body, Physical Body

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• The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Hard Work, Mutual Support, Development

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• We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.

  Gordon Stein

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Mind, Energy

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Justified, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.163, Vintage

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• The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

  Gertrude Stein

  Nature, Events, Century

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• The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Calm, Youth

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• There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Player, Speech, Action

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