Mechanism Quotes - Page 6

• In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

  Maurice Allais

  Cancer, Credit, Facts

  "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.

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• People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Succeed, Made

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• What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Space, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.288, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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• Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

  Susan Jacoby

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

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• The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

  Donald Kuspit

  Art, Mean, Mirrors

  Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

  Paul A. Baran

  Organization, Decay, Development

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.5, NYU Press

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• To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

  Nick Nolte

  Xanax, Cutting, Survival

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• The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Expression, Numbers, Musical

  "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Book by L.F. Menabrea. Scientific Memoirs (Richard Taylor): 694, 1842.

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• The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  Barbara Walters

  Talking, People, Perfect

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• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  Keith Boykin

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

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• Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

  John Dos Passos

  Sex, Wall, Ignorant

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.

  Ada Lovelace

  Together, Matter, Links

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• It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Brain, Fundamentals

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• I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

  Eve Ensler

  Suicidal, Sleep, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Self, Ego

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

  Robert Reich

  Home, Coping Mechanisms, Typical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

  Assata Shakur

  Survival, Curiosity, Different

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• People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Colonialism, Slavery

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• Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Maintaining

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• Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

  Chevy Stevens

  Book, Character, Coping Mechanisms

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• We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.

  Narendra Modi

  Impact, Focus, Ambitious

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• We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Giving, Challenges

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• BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Engagement, India

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• The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.

  Alex Gibney

  Lying, Fabulous, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Blind Spots, Faithful

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