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«I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second»
Author: Helen Fielding
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
abruptly, consume, dieting, extension, good idea, hangover, hangovers, nicotine, rationally, resolutions, smoker, smokers, stroke, technically
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
| About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
| Keywords:
and or, Big Lie, big time, consequences, dissent, dissenting, dissents, economic, economic power, Enemy of the state, eventually, extension, extensions, maintained, military, military power, mortal, mortal enemy, political, political power, powers, repeating, repress, repressing, shield, shielded, shielding, state, The State, thus, vitally
«Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business»
Author: Robert Rice
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
behavior, considered, extension, extensions, legitimate, logical, respectable
«Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.»
«Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.»
«Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm»
«In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Technology
| Keywords:
electronic, extension, Information Age, more and more, technological, translated
«If mankind recognizes that war is impossible...that all national rivalries are foolish...if they get together any kind of an extension of detente... then we may pull out of it all the better for it.»
Author: Tori Amos
(Singer)
| Keywords:
detente, extension, get together, national, pull out, pull together, recognizes, rivalries
«As if we can ever imagine the past, future, life on other planets, everything is such an extension, such a projection of life as we know it.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
extension, planets, projection, projections
«Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arises, conscious, extension, extensions, making, unconscious
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