Phenomenon Quotes - Page 33

• You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

  Tony Blair

  Reality, Media, Amplify

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Media, Revolutionary

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.

  Tony Blair

  Two, Interesting, Unity

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I don't really care for or that much about Chat Roulette. I think the phenomenon of it and like the first wow factor which was so absolutely insane about Chat Roulette. Certainly that's what inspired me to make that movie but I think that's true for everyone that used Chat Roulette which is why it was such an explosion. Now it's just kind of disappeared. You don't hear much about it anymore.

  Casey Neistat

  Thinking, Insane, Firsts

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Believe, Media

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

  David Cameron

  Regulation, Plague, Complexes

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

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• Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana.

  Rajneesh

  Effort, Delhi, Knows

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• The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

  Susan Sontag

  Most Amazing, Idealism

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• So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

  John B. S. Haldane

  War, Progress, Example

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, Trying, Layers

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• It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

  Michael Douglas

  Actors, British, Young

  "Jeremy Irvine's Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

  M. Scott Peck

  Essence, People, Growing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Isms, Satisfaction

  Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

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• The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.335, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

  Allen Lacy

  Gardening, Attention

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• The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

  Shana Alexander

  Artist, Needs, Pharaohs

  Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

  Timothy Keller

  Philosophical, Would Be, Tests

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• Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Simple, Reality

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• Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Priorities, Lists

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar

  Ram Gopal Varma

  Awards, Drs, Actors

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• Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Israel, People, World

  "World: An Interview with Gaddafi". TIME Interview, April 9, 1979.

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• Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

  Rajneesh

  May, Awakening, Inference

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• The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

  Ben Hecht

  Girl, Children, Eye

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

  Jacob Needleman

  Men, Years, Class

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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