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• The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes of manifestation exhibit equivalent invariances for both consciousness and matter. When the program for mind-physics is complete the subject-object dichotomy of modal logic, the polarity of concept-percept, and the antagonism between morality and technology will all come to an end. Then the non-repeatable experiment will be understood to be more primary than the traditional repeatable experiment.

  Paul Laffoley

  Technology, Mind, Matter

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• But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
  Process and Reality

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Class, Rats

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Beautiful, Morning, Stress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen.

  Andrea Riseborough

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Views, Profound, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can't all be physicists.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Science, Dwarves

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 3)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Use, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

  Matthew Lillard

  Party, Drinking, Play

  "Matthew Lillard Talks Fat Kid Rules the World, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.

  Dennis Miller

  Hate, Race, Years

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• I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

  Kenny Hickey

  Looks, Way, Nervous

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• I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Twenties, Want

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• A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of
  coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Done, Levels

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• We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Order, Strange Places

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.

  Shook

  Character, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

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• Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.

  Wale

  Two, Wish, Wales

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

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• Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

  Mark Kac

  Discipline, Mathematics, Deals

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• The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Psychosis, Wrath

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Deus Irae”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Love, Friendship, Mean

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• The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .

  Robin Cook

  Country, War, Believe

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• I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

  David Christian

  May, Way, Pieces

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• I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.

  Blake Butler

  Thinking, Use, Layers

  Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the Nephilim - who corrupted, harassed, even killed mankind. Now, at the end of the 20th century, we have the return of "alien" entities with apparent supernatural powers.

  Chuck Missler

  Powerful, Angel, Race

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• There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Gold, Unions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Independent, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.297, Vintage

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