Modification Quotes - Page 5

• We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Generations, Kind

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Arriving

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Long, Obscure

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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• Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

  Publilius Syrus

  Plans, Incapable

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• It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Beautiful, Departed, May

  "Sketches from Life". Book by Laman Blanchard, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, "Memoire", 1846.

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• The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

  Frederick Sommer

  Dimensions, Elegance, Structure

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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• These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Character, Expression, Single Life

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.183, e-artnow

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• Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Country, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Class, Age

  Peter Kropotkin (2002). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Faces, Breaking Down

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• Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Safety, Imagination, Boards

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• The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Simple, Space

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

  Prince Charles

  Animal, Agriculture, Community

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• At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Healing, Character, Mean

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