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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, Intelligent, Enemy

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• Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

  John Polkinghorne

  Believe, Reality, World

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• The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses upon us a dynamic picture of the world of entities, structures and processes involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Perspective, World, Structure

  "Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring".

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• We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

  Mitchell Baker

  Development, Release, Projects

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Nonprofits

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• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

  Martin Heidegger

  World, Physics, Modern

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• Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

  James Lovelock

  Inspirational, Dance, Evolution

  "Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist". Book by James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2000.

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• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  Chris Chocola

  Wall, Agency, Law

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• The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Literature, Immediacy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Occam's Razor

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• Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Sovereign

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.

  Robert Fulghum

  Taken, Heart, Exercise

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• The music becomes something that is its own entity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz

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• Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Trying, Essentials, Doe

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.34, Cato Institute

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Understanding, Preparation

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  Roman Jakobson

  Running, Taken, Giving

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• The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

  Christian Lous Lange

  War, Intellectual, Levels

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Microsoft, Strange, Mysterious

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• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  M. Scott Peck

  Mean, Responsibility, Organization

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

  Andrew Card

  Government, Homeland Security, Federal Government

  "White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card". "PBS NewsHour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

  John Paul Stevens

  Team, Nfl, Common

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• I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

  Brian De Palma

  Moving, Musical, Kind

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• Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

  Peter Straub

  Fiction, Want, Form

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• The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

  Dick Wolf

  Different, Agendas, Tables

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