Entity Quotes - Page 16

• "What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". "

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Tiny, Littles

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• Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Corporations, Economic, Social

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• Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

  Kevin Hart

  Want, Comedy, Brands

  "Kevin Hart Talks RIDE ALONG, Moving to the New Phase in His Career, Comparisons to other Buddy Cop Action Comedies, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

  RZA

  Art, Children, Hate

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive

  Ian Somerhalder

  Technology, Media, Pieces

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

  Albert Bandura

  Mind, Enlightenment, Events

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Night, Years, Anxiety

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they’ll be talking about you and me. We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, What Matters, Talking

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Powerful, People, Agents

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• If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.

  Medard Boss

  Mean, Persistence, Men

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• All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

  John C. Lilly

  World, May, Today

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can do by myself that I would never be able to do with Group Material. First of all, they are a totally democratic entity and although you learn a lot from it, and it's very moving, it's very exacting, everything has to be by consensus, which is the beauty of it, but it is much more work. It's worth it 100%. But as an individual artist there are certain things that I want to bring out and express, and the collaborative practice is not conducive to that.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Moving, Artist, Practice

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• An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

  Henry Stapp

  Essence, Vegetarian, Reach Out

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• Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

  Henri Poincare

  Life, Math, Abstract

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Suicidal, Ego

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• I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

  Jessica Mitford

  War, Fighting, Men

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• The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Moving, Science, Talking

  1925 Science And the Modern World.

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• Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

  Mike Mentzer

  Men, Mind, Body

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• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Wise, Thinking, Our World

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• There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.

  Matt Taibbi

  Powerful, Book, Player

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• The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

  David Holmgren

  Breathing, Ongoing, Earth

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• Each soul or entity will and does return, or cycle, as does nature in its manifestations about man; thus leaving, making or presenting-as it were-those infallible, indelible truths that it -Life-is continuous.

  Edgar Cayce

  Men, Leaving, Soul

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