Introduction Quotes - Page 9

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Bill Hybels

Giving, Best Gift, Humans

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Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.

Peter Welch

Years, Cards, Ignored

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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

W. Edwards Deming

Business, Errors, Imagination

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An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

Stanley Wolpert

Fall, Excellent, British

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The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

Mark Twain

Grateful, School, Doctors

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To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

Sex, Ordinary, Negative

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The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

Ralph Metzner

Culture, Transformation, Consciousness

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If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

Diane Coyle

Book, Thinking, Laughing

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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Jack Steinberger

Army, Special, Chicago

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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Math, Numbers, Law

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Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

Sophie Irene Loeb

Kissing, Dating, Romance

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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

Alister E. McGrath

Ideas, Calvinism, Insight

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I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Alan Parsons

Tvs, Cameras, Tape

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

Frederick Lenz

Fall, Buddhism, Essence

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Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

Mean, Meditation, Enlightenment

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Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

Frederick Lenz

Reality, Mind, Way

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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

Frederick Lenz

Ideas

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The introduction of heartache began as a child.

Ozzy Osbourne

Family, Children, Heartache

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What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

Chris Hughes

Thinking, Ideas, Ipads

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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

Mae Whitman

Book, School, Wrinkles

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Innovation, Novelty, Invention

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Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Frederick Lenz

Teaching, Enlightenment, Strings

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In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

Frederick Lenz

Mountain, Village, Forests

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Plato

Plato, Numbers, Soul

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.24, University Press of America

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He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

Frederick Lenz

Men, Groups, Students

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