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At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
by Howard Dean (Politician, American , born in 1948) keywords: always, been, beliefs, bottom, change, come, distorted, every, imbalance, nation, our, power, questioned, required, restore, truth, turn, up , values Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
by Charles Dickens (Novelist, English , born in 1812) keywords: blush, child, childish, distorted, forth, gives, happy, image, man, old, our, own, pride, send, state, title, together , ugly I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
by Ann Druyan (Writer, American , born in 1949) keywords: alienated, because, been, civilization, completely, culture, dependent, distorted, high, most, our, prevails, science, technology, thinking, us, view, wondering , yet The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
by Dick Ebersol (Businessman, American , born in 1947) keywords: again, away, become, brings, consistently, definition, distorted, dollars, done, faced, financial, heavy, hundreds, losses, millions, property, prospect, rights, walked, winning , won I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
by Brian Ferneyhough (Composer, British , born in 1943) keywords: being, destructive, distorted, except, exclusively, extent, force, left, lines, material, observance, path, see, their, through, traceable , wake Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
by Kristin Hersh (Musician, American , born in 1966) keywords: alternative, break, constructs, coverage, distorted, extensive, get, guitars, media, music, nirvana, out, play, pop, radio, say , still Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
by Hermann Hesse (Novelist, German , born in 1877) keywords: after, always, become, different, distorted, express, expressed, foolish, immediately, little, thoughts, very, well , words There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
by William H. Hunt (Soldier, American , born in 1823) keywords: belonging, distorted, features, his, imaginative, man, metaphors, more, ordinary, picture, poet, purpose, reason, should, spoil, such, suggestion, than, uses, why , words I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
by Garry Kasparov (Celebrity, Azerbaijani , born in 1963) keywords: capitalism, democracy, distorted, economy, liberal, market, picture, russians, think , today Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
by James Madison (President, American , born in 1751) keywords: background, constitution, distorted, end, form, government, historical, illegitimate, only, perverted, separate, text, which , will Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
by Samuel E. Morison (Historian, American , born in 1887) keywords: any, child, distorted, history, knows, lenses, must, only, queer, reality, reduced, representation , true In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
by Carl Rogers (Psychologist, American , born in 1902) keywords: any, being, distorted, each, experience, freely, nervous, open, person, process, stimulus, system, through , without Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
by George Soros (Businessman, Hungarian , born in 1930) keywords: air, basis, bubbles, distorted, grow, market, misconception, out, reality, solid, stock , thin I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: altogether, context, deal, destroyed, distorted, either, great, incongruous, juxtaposition, matter, meaning, mine, out, quite, quoted, sentence, some, suffered, which , writers Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?
by Pieter Zeeman (Physicist, Dutch , born in 1865) keywords: altering, circumstances, distorted, disturbing, factors, had, held, impossible, just, maxwell, more, noted, period, really, result, some, succeeded, therefore, vibration , which
