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«There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.»
Author: Bill Wulf
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
comprehend, division, imposition, impositions, natural science, reflects, The Division
«You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.»
«Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.»
Author: Golda Meir
(Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
imposition, impositions, reign
«If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| Keywords:
adjustment, arrange, arrangement, assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, call attention, collective, forcibly, imposition, impositions, ordered, pleasing, remaining, sending, The Practice, tranquil
«If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, arrest, educational, efficacious, helpful, imposition, impositions, Movements, rigorously, spontaneous, tasks, tends, tends to, The Complete, unfolding
«Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
deserving, false, idle, imposition, impositions, merit, merited, oft
«PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
imposition, impositions, superstructure, superstructures
«There are large numbers of people who simply don't have the values and vision necessary to be part of an inter-dependent world. They think their differences -- whether religious, political, tribal or ethnic -- are more important than our common humanity. They believe the truth they have justifies their imposition of that truth on other people, even if it takes them to the death of innocents.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
Death of, dependent, differences, ethnic, imposition, impositions, innocents, inter, interred, justifies, large numbers, numbers, political, religious, religious truth, tribal, values
«We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
compelled, doctrine, fables, forgeries, forgery, impositions, testament
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