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The word 'civilization'to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing? Civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
— 1962 Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.
Though the mere opinion of an Attorney- or Solicitor-General ought not to be cited, yet coupled with the fact, it may have some weight as showing the general sense of professional men.
william henry ashurst— King v. Pasmore (1789), 3 T. R. 243.
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.
jeffrey cohen— Preface, p.ix
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
l. ron hubbard— Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (19 July 1961)
To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.
william joyce— Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 173. UK National Archives KV 2/245/285.
— Broadcast, 2 April 1941. In this broadcast Joyce for the first time identified himself, in response to an article in the London Evening Standard which claimed he ran a spy ring in Britain.
I had the endurance but not the brute strength that must be coupled with it. No woman has this combination. That's why I say none of my sex will ever accomplish that particular stunt.
annette kellerman— Of swimming the English Channel; "Into Fame and Fortune", in The American Magazine, Vol. 83 (1917), p. 34
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
brian kernighan— "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.
abul ala maududi— 1977, Minhaj al-inqilab al-Islami. (The method of Islamic Revolution) p.19
[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
Michel de Montaigne— Book I, ch. 9
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
alfred de zayas— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]
An action cannot be supported for telling a bare naked lie: but that I define to be, saying a thing that is false, knowing or not knowing it to be so, and without any design to injure, cheat, or deceive another person. Every deceit comprehends a he; but a deceit is more than a lie, on account of the view with which it is practised, its being coupled with some dealing, and the injury which it is calculated to occasion, and does occasion, to another person.
— Buller, J., Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 56.
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]
Though the mere opinion of an Attorney- or Solicitor-General ought not to be cited, yet coupled with the fact, it may have some weight as showing the general sense of professional men.
— King v. Pasmore (1789), 3 T. R. 243.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction.
— Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
Man and wife, coupled together for the sake of strife.
Charles Churchill— Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 1,005.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction.
— Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
— Brian Kernighan, "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgement.
— Montaigne, Essays, c. 1580.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
— James Lovelock, in Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist, p. 8
When entrepreneurial ideas are coupled with the right people, we can change the world.
richard branson
His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife coupled together for the sake of strife.
Charles Churchill— Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 1,003.
Fugue states or severe headaches prior to or after overt necrophilic behavior have also been reported. coupled with the fact that alcohol (one of the factors associated with necrophilia) can induce temporal lobe abnormalities, and that temporal lobe abnormalities are associated with a number of other paraphilias , it may be reasonable to deduce that temporal lobe anomalies may be responsible for some instances of necrophilia.
— Anil Aggrawal, in Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects, CRC Press, 15 December 2010, p.29
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. So there are mere philologists, mere jurists, mere soldiers, mere merchants, etc. To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
carl friedrich gauss— Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel (1862)
In the Congress as a whole-both House and Senate-the enhanced role of money in the re-election process, coupled with the sharply diminished role for reasoned deliberation and debate, has produced an atmosphere conducive to pervasive institutionalized corruption. The Abramoff scandal is but the tip of a giant iceberg that threatens the integrity of the entire legislative branch of government.
al gore— Martin Luther King Day address, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. (16 January 2006)
