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Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.
satoru iwata— Japan's Nintendo wins exclusive deal for Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 title
Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state — and of fundamentalism — has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.
ruhollah khomeini— Milton Viorst in TIME (13 April 13 1998)
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable — the best site is "somewhere else entirely."
gerard k. o'neill— The High Frontier (1976)
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building; the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal.
nikolaus pevsner— An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1942] 1957), p. 23.
Human judges can show mercy . But against the laws of nature , there is no appeal.
arthur c. clarke— "Maelstrom II" (1965)
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.
florence earle coates— The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry."
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm— Ch. 1 (The Art of Loving (1956))
I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart. We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had them .
Henry James— Ch. II (The Turn of the Screw (1898))
In war-time on the field or in the fleet, a mortal punishment decreed by a drum-head court on the field sometimes decreed by but a nod from the General follows without delay on the heel of conviction without appeal.
Herman Melville— Ch. 21 (Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891))
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?
ilana mercer— "John Maynard Keynes: Where’s The Genius?! (Part 2) Economic Policy Journal, August 23, 2013.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire , even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience , the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
— John Drinkwater, in The Lyric: An Essay, p.35
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
— Ch. 19, p. 296 (Hadrian the Seventh (1904))
The people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal to arms. An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law; and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his fellow citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation.
— 2 Elliot's Debates, 94; 2 Bancroft's History of the Constitution, p. 267. Quoted in Sparf and Hansen v. U.S., 156 U.S. 51 (1895), Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ., 144.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
— Larry Wall, "Wherefore Art, Thou?", The Perl Journal 1(1); reprinted in Linux Journal, March 1, 1997
The appeal of biological determinism is that it offers plausible, scientific explanations for societal contradictions engendered by capitalism. If Type-II diabetes is reduced to the problem of genetics (which it surely is to some degree), then we don’t have to think about the rise of obesity and its underlying causes: the agro-business monopoly, income inequality, and class-based disparities in food quality. Combine this with the prevalence of drug-based solutions to disease pushed by the pharmaceutical industry and it is no surprise that we are left with the impression that complex social phenomena are reducible to simple scientific fact.
— Pankaj Mehta, There's a gene for that, Jacobin, February 2014
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
walt disney— How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004) by Pat Williams
Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
Daniel Defoe— An Essay upon Publick Credit (1710).
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; “good/evil” is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.
raymond geuss— p. 39 (Philosophy and Real Politics (2008))
What in Calvin had been a qualified concession to practical exigencies appeared in some of his later followers as a frank idealization of the life of the trader, as the service of God and the training-ground of the soul. Discarding the suspicion of economic motives, which had been as characteristic of the reformers as of medieval theologians, Puritanism in its later phases added a halo of ethical sanctification to the appeal of economic expediency, and offered a moral creed, in which the duties of religion and the calls of business ended their long estrangement in an unanticipated reconciliation.
r. h. tawney— Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926, pp. 239-240)
The Sultan's proclamation [of war] was an official public document, and dealt with the proposed Holy War [Jihad] only in a general way, but about this same time a secret pamphlet appeared which gave instructions to the faithful in more specific terms...It was a lengthy document full of quotations from the Koran, and its stile was frenzied in its appeal to racial and religious hatred. It described a detailed plan of operations for the assassination and extermination of all Christians except those of German nationality.
— Henry Morganthau, in Secrets of the Bosphorus (1918) London, Hutchinson & Co. pp. 106-7.
Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance.
hale boggs— Speech before Congress (April 22, 1971)
