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• Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.

  Unknown

  Business, Opinion, Conversation

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• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Lawrence Klein

  Team, Order, United States

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• The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Order, Chaos

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• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  Linda Vester

  Survival, Stories, Sometimes

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• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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• Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Animal, Agreement, Law

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Problem

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Males

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• Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Population, Isolation

  Ernst Mayr (1970). “Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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• My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

  Max Brooks

  Coping Mechanisms, Use, Wit And Humor

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• Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

  Ann Zwinger

  Flower, Acceptance, Survival

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• Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Degradation, Today

  Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Speech, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Years, Trying, Use

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Love, Keys, Two

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• If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Knowing

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• Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

  Gillian Sorensen

  Our World, Unesco, United Nations

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• The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cells

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• You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

  Erik Qualman

  Communication, Young Generation, Talking

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• Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Moving, Links, Evolution

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at the false conclusion, that Plotto is a dictionary of situations, a mechanism that yields a cut and dried plot by the mere use of a thumb index. Plotto, to the contrary, merely suggests the situations for the plot, explains what is to be done through Purpose and Obstacle and even offers suggestions as to the way in which it should be done.

  William Wallace Cook

  Cutting, Yield, Knowing

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• Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

  Roland Barthes

  Cameras, Sound, Woods

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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