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• In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Evil, Lasts

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• The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Mother, Father, Gambling

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• The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Organization, Brain

  "Proud atheists". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Reality, Scripts

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• Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Europe, Organization, Differences

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• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Problem, Logical

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Player, Two, Boards

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• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Preparation, Measurement, Physics

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• When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

  Nate Silver

  Cartoon, Onions, Kind

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• In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Style, Finals

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Numbers

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• All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

  Max Weber

  Data, Age, Research

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.157, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  George Will

  Government, Choices, Groups

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  Natalie Wood

  Transformation, Change Yourself, Stills

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• Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Molecules, Culture

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Intelligent, Political Will

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• I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

  Anais Nin

  Brake, Paralyzed

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• Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

  Robert James Waller

  Magic, Going Away, Looks

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.39, Random House

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• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

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

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• A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stars, Hard Times, Keys

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• The land is so much more than its analysis.

  John Steinbeck

  Land

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.91, Hamilton Books

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• The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Firsts, Problem

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.8, Sounds True

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• And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Rights

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Stress, Sleep, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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