Certain Quotes - Page 27

• There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

  Leo Ornstein

  People, Way, Performances

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• That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

  Richard Owen

  Would Be, Individual, Constant

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• Certain struggles never end.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Struggle, Ends

  "Is There an O'Neal Family Curse?" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. February 7, 2007.

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Cripples

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• I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

  Will Oldham

  People, Figures, Despise

  "Ode to joy" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

  Will Oldham

  Order, Needs, Sometimes

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• In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

  Marisha Pessl

  America, People, House

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• First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

  William C. Brown

  Sports, Art, Philosophy

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• For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mean, Knowing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.

  David Auburn

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Purpose, Ontology, Logic

  Colin MacLaurin (1756). “A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines”, p.1

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• Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Prayer, Personality

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1968). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My religion. On life. Thoughts of God. On the meaning of life”

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• It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

  Steve Pavlina

  Funny, Jobs, Mean

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• A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

  Sir John Woodroffe

  Letters, Way, Sound

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• We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Powerful, Air, Goes On

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• There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Expression, Ideas

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• Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

  Vinod Khosla

  Ideas, Purpose, Biofuels

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview,, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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• Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

  Annette Lu

  Democracies Have, Democracy, United States

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• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  Barry Levinson

  Prove It, Happens, Things Happen

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  Barry Levinson

  Memorable, Interesting, Way

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

  Brie Larson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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

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• Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Thinking, Organization, Way

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• I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

  Coco Lee

  Believe, People, Sound

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• In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

  David Leavitt

  Memories, Thinking, Degrees

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• It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, People, Want

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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