George Spencer-Brown Quotes
We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
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To remember everything is a form of madness.
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If he were just able to cross everything off, he'd start to get a little cocky, I'm sure. He'd start to rush it and maybe get a little too overly confident. He still gets tossed around in the process. That's sort of to me an indication that he still has a long way to go.
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We haven't gotten an indication that it would be worth our while.
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As a member of our team you played the game. Now you form a team with a man of your heart for the highest natural purpose.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
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Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
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I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.
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One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.
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What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.
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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
