Breaking Down Quotes - Page 2

• I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!

  Leilani Bishop

  Growing, Levels, Want

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• If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.

  Richard Branson

  Fall, Kids, School

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Kids, Clothes, People

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Talking, Energy

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• Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Technology, Understanding, World

  Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  Major Owens

  Home, Long, Incentives

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• At some point, Moore's law will break down.

  Seth Lloyd

  Law, Break, Moore's Law

  Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.157, Random House

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• Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

  Ivan Illich

  People, Political, Narcissistic

  Ivan Illich (1992). “In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990”, Marion Boyars

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• I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!

  Jason Diamond

  Kids, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Medicine, Trying

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The switch to the market in Eastern Europe, of course, has not exactly been one of the greatest advertisements for the market. There's no question the socialist system - and I hate to use the word 'socialist,' but I suppose some description of a system in which the state is in control - was breaking down, really collapsing. In these countries, most markedly in Russia itself and in a number of the others, it obviously was based on a tyranny, which is unacceptable even if it were producing good economic results, which it was not.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Country, Hate, Europe

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

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• If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Upset, Suffering, Machines

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• The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Teaching, Easy

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

  Walter Russell

  Mean, Fire, Wind

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• Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

  Ettore Messina

  Volleyball, Giving Up, People

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• Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents expect to die? They took life for granted, as we do. How often do we hear stories of people whom we know, or even friends, who died unexpectedly? We don't even have to be ill to die: Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Fall, Order

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• I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

  Paul Schrader

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

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• It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Country, Long

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A “Threat To The Nation’s Survival”". www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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• There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Science, Conquer The World

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• It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.16, Рипол Классик

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• Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Communication, Ill Health, Perfect

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• If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

  Yoshiki Nakamura

  Wall, Walks, Ifs

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• Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Facts, Scientist

  “The Plot Against People” by Russell Baker, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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