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• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Femme, Mystique

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.

  Albert J. Nock

  Government, Organization, Two

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 38), 1935.

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• By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.

  Albert J. Nock

  Principles, Mouths, Way

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 305), 1943.

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• The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.

  George C. Lorimer

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 267), 1895.

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• The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture

  Fred Brooks

  Data, Organization, Design

  "Architecture of the IBM System". IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 8, 1964.

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, Credit

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• The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

  James Gleick

  Taken, Feet, Acting

  1994 In the NewYork Times Magazine, 1 May

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• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.58, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Fate, Leader

  Remarks in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, Belfast Waterfront, Belfast, June 17, 2013.

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• The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Elements, Lines

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Children, Play, Adults

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Party, Issues

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• In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

  Tony Alessandra

  Keys, Organization, World

  Tony Alessandra (1986). “The New Art of Managing People”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

  Harriet Lerner

  Long, Challenges, Balance

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

  Alan Lightman

  Principles, Fundamentals, Causes

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• The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Doe, Neurons, Systematic

  "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (pp. 145-157), 1948.

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• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Class, Events, Sociology

  "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 183), 1949.

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• In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mind, Alchemist, Prejudice

  "The Abyss". Book by Marguerite Yourcenar, Author's note, p. 367, 1968.

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

  Anthony Crosland

  Believe, Long, Form

  Speech in Eastbourne, November 20, 1975.

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• Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

  Harry Graham

  School, Sunday, Long

  Harry Graham (2016). “Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.

  Roger Scruton

  Philosophy, Might, Problem

  Roger Scruton (1982). “From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy”, Harpercollins

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• For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.

  Michael Walzer

  War, Lying, Men

  Michael Walzer (2015). “Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations”, p.26, Basic Books

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