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• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.

  Edmund Burke

  Interesting, Ancestry, Weakness

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.51, CUP Archive

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, Roles, Pieces

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Digital, Dependence

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• When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Support, Guidance

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• The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

  Michael Schudson

  Subtle, Repetition, Obvious

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.28, Routledge

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• There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Loss, Enlightened

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• In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

  Henry Waxman

  Routine, Disease, Advertising

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• The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Mind, Done

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• John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.

  Robert Lawlor

  Law, Sky, Numbers

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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• Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

  James Fenton

  Carrie

  "Stamp of the three-footed molossus" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

  Gao Xingjian

  Listening, Needs, Language

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• Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

  Luc Montagnier

  Viruses, Response, Locals

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.

  Susan Sontag

  Sex, Past, Ignored

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• A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Commitment, Play, Rights

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• A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Practice, Attention

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• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teaching, Writing, Mean

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• The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

  Roland Barthes

  Stars, Real, Missing

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• Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Cutting, Order

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• Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Mean

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  Faith Ringgold

  Love, Age, Trying

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• Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.

  Harald Haas

  Motivation, Smart, Inspiration

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