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«The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
castes, caste system, concomitant, concomitants, empires, enlightenment, exploitation, favored, grading, integration, large numbers, phenomenon, political system, The Creation
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
| Keywords:
accounted, decade, defiance, established, event, last decade, outstanding, phenomenon, secular, social event, wide
«The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists.»
Author: Thomas Nolle
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
anarchists, an anarchist, Basic Law, bunch, comply, complying, cultural, devised, hippie, hippies, phenomenon
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| About:
Belief,
Life,
Loneliness,
Principles
| Keywords:
conviction, curious, human existence, inevitable, peculiar, phenomenon, rests, solitary, The central
«The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.»
«The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
derive, lie in, natural phenomenon, observe, observer, phenomena, phenomenon, position, The Observer, The Teacher
«The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bound, Cause and Effect, effect, phenomenon
«The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Cause and Effect, phenomenon, The Thinker, thinker
«The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
A.D., calm down, establishment, phenomenon, rebellion, The Establishment, worldwide
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