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• We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course."

  Gregory Bateson

  Perception, Able, Next

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

  Sigmund Freud

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  Daniel Guerin

  Men, Liberty, Haste

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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• It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Practice, Doubt, Ongoing

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• Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhist, Yoga

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• ... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Stress, Feelings

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• We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

  Terence McKenna

  Monkeys, Coral Reefs, Kind

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• Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

  Chris Prentiss

  Pain, Emotional, People

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.15, BookBaby

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• The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

  Jeremy Bernstein

  Numbers, Brain, Neurons

  Jeremy Bernstein (1981). “The analytical engine: computers--past, present, and future”, William Morrow &Company

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• What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Self, May, Neurology

  "The Tell-Tale Brain". Book by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, 2010.

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• The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material, from which they are derived, or in the laws, governing their formation.

  Kurt Gödel

  Law, Atmosphere, Body

  "Nature's Imagination". Book by J. Cornwall, p.161-189, 1995.

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• The social body persists although the component cells may change.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cells, Body, May

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Thinking, People

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• I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Strong, Latin, Passion

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• The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

  Gordon Bell

  Engineering, Programming, Software

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• A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Keys

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• Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Past, Tradition, Moments

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• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Fashion, Color, Discipline

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Glasses, Water

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• The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

  William McKinley

  Discipline, Important, Technique

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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