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• Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.

  Dora Russell

  Falling In Love, Sex, Motherhood

  "Who is Dora Black?". Equal Rights Magazine, June 5, 1926.

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• I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Mean, Minorities

  Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Jorge Luis Borges, Anglo-Argentine Society (1988). “In memory of Borges”, Not Avail

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• With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

  Ladislav Sutnar

  Design, Flow, Form

  Ladislav Sutnar (1961). “Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes”

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• .. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

  Warwick Fox

  Greek, Maintenance, Earth

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• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

  James Lovelock

  Whales, Atmosphere, Viruses

  James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Principles, Way

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• I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

  Fernando Alonso

  Believe, Fate, People

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

  Terence McKenna

  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

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• My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Understanding, Wish, Germany

  "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 562), 2002.

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• A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

  James Bryce

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Stupidity

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• They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Personality, Important, Individual

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• I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Broken, Miracle

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• I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Love You, Fighting

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• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

  David Mitchell

  War, Law, Kitchen

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• On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
  Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
  You Presume you are a small entity,
  But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
  You are indeed the evident book,
  By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
  Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
  What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans.

  Richard M Perloff

  Dream, People, History

  Richard M. Perloff (2017). “The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century”, p.279, Taylor & Francis

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• Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

  William of Ockham

  Numbers, Increase

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• Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Stupidity, Occam's Razor

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• Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Humble, Land, Heritage

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  Nathan Fillion

  Giving, Pay, Foxes

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