Mass Quotes - Page 35

• Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

  Helen Lawrenson

  Age, Actresses, Typical

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Spring, World, Growing

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• Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

  Edward Luttwak

  Cohesion

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• ... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Sunshine, Shadow, Poor

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• ...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.

  David Fairchild

  Beautiful, Horse, Believe

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• We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

  William J. Clinton

  Wind, Oil, Coal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Keys, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

  Edward Snowden

  Squares, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Population, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Reckless, Mankind

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• It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
  of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
  event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
  upon the masses in 2012.

  Phil Collen

  Rocks, Perfect, Cameras

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• What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

  Keith Olbermann

  Mom, Hockey, Turkeys

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• Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mass Destruction, Hands, Weapons

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Simple, Swings

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• No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Use, Shells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

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• The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

  Albert Einstein

  Garden, Ideas, Light

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• For the success,
  Although particular, shall give a scantling
  Of good or bad unto the general;
  And in such indexes, although small pricks
  To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
  The baby figure of the giant mass
  Of things to come at large.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Book, Giving

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 343

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• Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Mind, Body, Energy

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• Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

  Jay Leno

  Mass Destruction, Law, Rivers

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• But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Flower, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

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• A man should give us a sense of mass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Parent, Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1614, Delphi Classics

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