Layers Quotes - Page 3

• The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

  Johannes Stark

  Mean, Atoms, Fundamentals

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• We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Care, Transparency

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• When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Cutting, Staff, Pentagon

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

  Susan Powter

  Ozone, Want, Sun

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• But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Upset, Earth

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• So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

  Dean Stockwell

  Ozone, Goes On, Recycling

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• THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

  Dick Francis

  Children, People, Young

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• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  Ted Dekker

  Real, What Matters, Two

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Men, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

  Bill Gates

  Minorities, Legs, Tough

  "Bill Gates invites us all to read Jared Diamond's The World Until Yesterday" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

  Tim Cahill

  Ponies, Firsts, Dense

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phoenix

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• Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

  Julian Baggini

  Rip, Eye, Thinking

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

  John Banville

  Self, Soul, Toffee

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• If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Fun, Memories, Law

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, Food, July

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• My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

  Emily Carr

  Determination, White, Mountain

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.99, D & M Publishers

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• As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Mom, Kids, Talking

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• There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

  Bootsy Collins

  Inspirational, Higher

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• [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Race, Our Town, Nonsense

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• You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

  Roger Daltrey

  Play, Guitar, Bricks

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• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Ocean, Hard Work

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• Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Effectiveness, Social, Increase

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Dust, Mirrors

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• When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

  Michele Cassou

  Painting, Ancient, Arise

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.135, Penguin

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