Site Quotes - Page 17

• The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Past, Political, Culture

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• The first time I punched in my name and saw how many sites there were, I thought, that's scary. I got too involved where I got worried and panicked and tried to stop it. But you know what, if I just let it go and not worry about it, then it will be fine. Because it's all about how it makes me feel and I was letting it get to me.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Names, Worry, Scary

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• If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Acid, Form, Protein

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.

  Frederick Soddy

  Civilization, America, Missing

  "Morning of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Berger, (p. 181), 1963.

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• A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

  Simon Blackburn

  Leaving, World, Moral

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

  James G. Stavridis

  Linkedin, Social Network, Learning More

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• Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.

  Evan Wolfson

  Commitment, Caring, Thinking

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Coffee, Simple, Space

  "Quite a jolt for a simple berry" by Mark Pendergrast, www.cnn.com. August 4, 1999.

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• It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

  Brian Viglione

  Mean, Elements, Pressure

  OndaRock Interview, June 01, 2006.

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• Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

  Loyd Auerbach

  Psychics, People, House

  Loyd Auerbach (2010). “Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

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• Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap!

  David Letterman

  Writing, Night, Guy

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• I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace.

  Conan O'Brien

  Media, Social, Youtube

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• The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.

  Steven Johnson

  Mean, Dvds, Fans

  "Watching TV Makes You Smarter". www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2005.

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• One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

  Jay Chiat

  Confusion, News, Way

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• We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

  Jay Chiat

  Book, Reading, Leaving

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• Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Islands

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• The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

  Richard Norton Smith

  Country, Organization, Overwhelming Desire

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• Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't spend any time thinking of why you can't. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.

  Bob Proctor

  Fun, Real, Writing

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Clueless, Critics, Listen To Me

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• Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

  Edward Jenks

  Growing Up, Law, Justice

  "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.

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• Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

  Matt Sanchez

  Party, Player, Boards

  "AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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