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• As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Should Have, Law

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• We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Development, States

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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• Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

  Karl Marx

  Exercise, Effort, Growth

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• ... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Important

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• Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.

  Emma Lazarus

  Care, May, Today

  Emma Lazarus (1987). “An Epistle to the Hebrews”, Jewish Historical Society of

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• For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Race, Long

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• I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Cities, Fundamentals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mean, Sick, Mind

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• The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Energy, Inventory

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• I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Netflix, Way, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

  Brit Marling

  Hiding, Periods, Immune System

  Source: collider.com

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• Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Oxygen, Interesting

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

  Emo Philips

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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• Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (1952). “Scientific Papers”

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• I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.

  Bruno Walter

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

  Jim Dine

  Thinking, Miracle, Noble

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• The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

  Jim Cymbala

  Spiritual, Fighting, Church

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Feet, Discipline

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Years, Melting

  "Scalia Raps 'Living Constitution'". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2006.

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• The organism feeds on negative entropy.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Negative, Entropy

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• The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Party, Men, Moral

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