Phenomenon Quotes - Page 3

• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  Gail Collins

  Thinking, Class, Black

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• Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Unique, World

  Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

  Paulo Freire

  Order, Shadow, Revolution

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, Reality, Bereavement

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Dying, May

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Joy, Forever

  "Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. 'Finally! Someone understands us!'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

  Julian Assange

  Important, Increase

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational Education, Individual, Educated

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• No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Names, People, Doubt

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.808, Delphi Classics

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• It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Girl, Men, Common

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

  Christopher Moore

  Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

  Alan Moore

  Country, America, Superhero

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving Up, Years, People

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• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Facts, Popularity, Masculine

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.159, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

  Moby

  Hate, People, Strange

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Boundless

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Simple, New Experiences

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, Example

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• Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

  Stephen Crane

  Finals, Individual

  Stephen Crane (2016). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  Edmund Husserl

  Names, Phenomenology, Firsts

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Dysfunction, Cold

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

  Sidney Altman

  Hypothesis, Instance, Nevertheless

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