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• All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

  Jacques Ellul

  Secret, Facts, Language

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• In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Black

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Successful, Helping Others

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.12, Harvard Business Press

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• I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Discipline, Library

  "Flowers for Algernon".

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• Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis

  John Murphy

  Fundamentals, Indicators

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• I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think it's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people. I sat on the Robb-Silverman Commission. I saw many, many analysts that came before that committee. I asked every one of them-I said, 'Did-were you ever pressured politically or any other way to change your analysis of the situation as you saw?' Every one of them said no.

  John McCain

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "'The Early Show' Cherry-Picks McCain's "Face The Nation" Interview". www.newsbusters.org. November 14, 2005.

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Data, Lenses, Needs

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• The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Phrases, Language, Problem

  Robert Jay Lifton (1989). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "brainwashing" in China”, p.429, UNC Press Books

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• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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• Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

  Rebecca West

  Unity, Literature, Synthesis

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• Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

  Anais Nin

  Creative, Desire, Doe

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• One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.

  Douglas Adams

  Cat, Hands, Supposing That

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

  Henri Bergson

  Unique, Order, Intuition

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

  Mark Burnett

  Heard, Paralysis, Percent

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• Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

  Susan Sontag

  Exercise, Tragedy, Modern

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• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

  Mao Zedong

  Principles, Finals, May

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• Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

  Max Weber

  Judgment, Explanation, Values

  Max Weber (1949). “Max Weber on the methodology of the social sciences”

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• All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Mind, Important

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.104, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

  Monique Wittig

  Men, Practice, Ideas

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• The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Pain, Heart, School

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