Schemes Quotes - Page 20

• Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

  Ali MacGraw

  Fleeting, Modeling

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• I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Recovery, Play

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• In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.

  Mike Tyson

  Loss, People, Way

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• The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Ties, Games

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• If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Men, Games

  Libra pt. 2 (1988)

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• Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Empty, Primitive

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.429, Princeton University Press

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• The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

  Potter Stewart

  Liberty, Needs, Speech

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Thinking, Data

  "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". shirky.com. Spring, 2005.

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• The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

  Pema Chodron

  Work, Buddhism, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

  Ron Paul

  Crazy, Government, Abortion

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• The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.

  Rick Perry

  Crazy, Lying, Kids

  The Republican presidential Debate at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 2011.

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• We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Divine Guidance, Ties, Thrones

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Learning, Health, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  Walter Gilbert

  Inheritance, Evolution, Humans

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• Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

  Margaret Laurence

  Unique, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  "Alan Greenspan wants the US to go back on the gold standard" by Bill Bonner, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2016.

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fall, Hard Times, Drunk

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, October 4, 2011.

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• A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Facts, Stubborn

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• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  Martin Amis

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  "Experience". Book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

  Michael Sheen

  Girl, Boys, Kind

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• Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.

  William Mulholland

  Beautiful, Country, Heart

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