Selective Quotes - Page 8

• Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Long, Prevention

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.40, Inkling Books

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• When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.

  Erik Naggum

  Mistake, Insane, Doe

  "Lisp's future". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 31, 2004.

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• What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

  Alanis Morissette

  Memories, Unanswered Questions, Forget

  Song: Hands Clean, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

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• I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

  Erin O'Connor

  Years, Investment, Ifs

  "My life in shopping: Erin O'Connor, model". Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

  Julian Jaynes

  Moving, Learning, Knowledge

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

  Angelina Jolie

  Opportunity, Careers, Long

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Men, Effort, Agents

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…”, p.16, e-artnow

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• The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

  James Joyce

  Success, Dream, Artist

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.

  James Morcan

  Eugenics, Race, Blue

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