Internals Quotes - Page 21

• Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.

  David E. Cooper

  Humility, Practice, Gardening

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mean, Cutting, Successful

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Effort, Reform

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Reform, West

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

  Mary Robinson

  Matter, Killing, Rwanda

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.

  David Eagleman

  Falling In Love, Children, Average

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.108, Vintage

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• Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

  David Eagleman

  Battle, Outcomes, Behavior

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

  David Eagleman

  Play, Perception, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.59, Vintage

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• If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.

  Noam Chomsky

  Successful, Roots, Democracy

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Effort, Socialism

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United States organized an internal repression in South Vietnam, not using its troops, but using the local apparatus it was constructing. This was a very significant and very effective campaign of violence and terrorism against the Vietminh - which was the communist-led nationalist force that fought the French. And the Vietminh at that time was adhering to the Geneva Accords, hoping that the political settlement would work out in South Vietnam.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Work Out, Political

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Successful, Thinking

  Source: chomsky.info

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• In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Attachment, Giving

  Source: souljourns.net

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• At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian government you're on your own. Because the pope is for everybody and he can't insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country. This is not the role of the pope, right?

  Pope Francis

  Country, Italian, Government

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own heritage, of its own practice of Islam, of its weakening of its own ethics, and many things which are internal to Islam not just external.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Loss, Practice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Song

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.

  Reed Hastings

  Horse, Years, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people.

  Che Guevara

  Government, People, Cuba

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

  Che Guevara

  Allies, Revolution

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

  Martin Amis

  Cinema, Literature, Concern

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.78, Random House

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• British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

  Lee Child

  Stories, Psychological, Crime

  "Sacked at 40 and on the scrapheap. Now Brummie tops US book charts" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Lessons, Matter

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• Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  "Interview with Secretary Hillary Clinton". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  Gail Collins

  Law, Guy, Trying

  "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 22, 2012.

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