Ruling Quotes - Page 19

• A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Stars, Numbers, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Sheena Iyengar". bigthink.com.

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• For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Clock Is Ticking, Flames

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

  Charles Trevelyan

  Class, Hatred, Today

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• We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.

  Mark Durie

  Perfect, Mind, Needs

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

  Bruce Schneier

  Lying, Law, Insecurity

  "NSA secrets kill our trust" by Bruce Schneier, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.

  Channing Tatum

  Iron, Long, People

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Group Interview in between Set-ups, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

  David Hume

  Religious, Character, Evil

  David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.467

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Memories, Powerful, Mean

  Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Fashion, Enhancement

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• What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

  Herman Melville

  Atheist, Kindness, Men

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.220

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• It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.

  George Soros

  Hero, Mean, Cat

  "The Economy Fell off the Cliff". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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• If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

  William James

  Evil, Prove, Concern

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• God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

  Ed McMahon

  Drinking, Drunk, Alcohol

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• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Class, Political

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

  Cal Thomas

  Fall, Favors, Life Is

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• You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Class, People

  "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

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