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.George Spencer-Brown
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
Joanne Rowling -
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
G. Edward Griffin -
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!
Garik Israelian -
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.
Danica McKellar -
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Christina Aguilera -
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
Yasmin Ahmad -
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde -
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown -
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
Maajid Nawaz -
To remember everything is a form of madness.
Brian Friel -
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.
Jason Lee
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We haven't gotten an indication that it would be worth our while.
Jeff Long -
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.
John Curtin -
The soul is the form of the body.
Aristotle -
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
Albert Einstein -
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
William James -
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
William Nicholson
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
William O. Douglas -
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Queen Christina -
The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
Young Thug -
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.
George Spencer-Brown