Embedded Quotes

• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Decision

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• We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

  Walter Gilbert

  World, Related, Organisms

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• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Needs

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• The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Tvs, Force

  "A NATION AT WAR: THE VICE PRESIDENT; After Weeks of Criticism, Cheney Claims Vindication as Iraqis Hail Outcome of War" by Richard W. Stevenson and Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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• If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

  Gregory Bateson

  Men, Mind, Suffering

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.336, University of Chicago Press

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• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Law, Bears, Stealing

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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  Barry Commoner

  Art, Law, Medicine

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Commitment, New Day, Promise

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• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Law, Hemisphere, World

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• I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

  Will Wright

  Kind, Forget, Refreshing

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• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Rehabilitation, Pages, Conviction

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• I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

  Betty Smith

  Fake People, Horse, Wonderful

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• During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

  Jim C. Walton

  War, Moving, Technology

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• Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Novelists, Fiction, Letters

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Government, Ideas

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• The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

  John McCain

  Political, Consciousness, Malcontent

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

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• Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

  Christopher Lasch

  Perception, Shapes, Structure

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• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  Larry Niven

  Cutting, One Direction, Way

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

  Kofi Annan

  Practice, People, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

  Story Musgrave

  Space, Technique, Looks

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Dick Morris

  War, Iraq, Events

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• In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

  Bill Moyers

  Spiritual, Powerful, Struggle

  "Bill Moyers: 'That Sound You Hear Is the Shredding of the Social Contract'" by Bill Moyers, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2013.

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• Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

  Christina Aguilera

  Growing Up, Men, Childhood

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• As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Different, Daily Life

  "Basic instincts". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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