Demonstration Quotes - Page 15

• A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Lying, Long, Black

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Exception To The Rule

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• The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

  Phil Ochs

  Couple, Reality, Years

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, Having Hope, Rushdie

  "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie" by Craig R. Whitney, p. C18, archive.nytimes.com. May 23, 1989.

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• ...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Religion, Resurrection

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sweet, Hands, Order

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Principles

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• As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Giving, Mind

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• God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that?

  Stormie Omartian

  Hurt, Compassion, Doe

  FaceBook post by Stormie Omartian from Feb 12, 2015

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• Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Atheism, Diseased

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

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• I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Religious, Character, Political

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• In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.

  Mark Waid

  Cute, Couple, Book

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• If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Numbers, Government, Uprising

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• If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Home, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.71, Soft Skull Press

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• What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Glasses, Mirrors

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.

  Robert Fisk

  Justice, People, Giving

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, War, Fighting

  Arundhati Roy (2004). “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

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