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Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.
jeffrey cohen— Chapter III, p.23
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
ralph cudworth— Ch. 5, sct. 7
Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
luis a. ferré— Quoted by TIME Magazine on May 11, 1962 Time Magazine
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.
joachim von ribbentrop— Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 562 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
salman rushdie— Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)
This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.
sathya sai baba— Statement (1968) as quoted in Sathya Sai Speaks Volume VIII, p. 99f
What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.
Denis Diderot— Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
"This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity."
mohammad hussein fadlallah— The mutual love between Allah and His servants
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 214 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve
happy rhodes— "Chosen One"
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.
Harold Rosenberg— "Criticism and Its Premises" (p. 137)
For me, Still ’s pictorial dramas are an extension of the Greek Persephone myth. As he himself has expressed it, his paintings are ‘of the Earth, the Damned, and of the Recreated’ Every shape becomes an organic entity, inviting the multiplicity of associations inherent in all living things. To me they form a theogony of the most elementary consciousness, hardly aware of itself beyond the will to live – a profound and moving experience. (1946, catalogue introduction for the first one-man-show of Clyfford Still)
mark rothko— Art of this Century, February 12 – March 2, 1946, Peggy Guggenheim Papers on the work of Clyfford Still; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 203
Since 1949, China has been temporarily divided, and each side of the Taiwan Strait is administered by a separate political entity. This is an objective reality.
— Ma Ying-jeou (2012) cited in: "President Ma delivers address at symposium on "1992 Consensus"" in Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan), 9 November 2012.
— Statement made during the 1992 Consensus Symposium in C. F. Koo Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 November 2012.
Although “Madraspatnam” emerged as a new political entity, some of the towns and villages encased by its limits had genealogies extending into the Greco-Roman period, and other had monuments to authenticate claims of Pallava (650-1100) and Chola (850-1350) rule .
— K.V.Raman, in "The early History of Madras region", quoted in p.47
A well-defined enterprise architecture (EA) is a blueprint for institutional modernization and evolution that consists of models describing how an entity operates today and how it intends to operate in the future, along with a plan for how it intends to transition to this future state. Such architectures are essential tools whose effective development and use are recognized hallmarks of successful organizations.
— Government Accountability Office (GAO) (2003) Leadership Remains Key to Agencies Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts GAO-04-40, Nov 17, 2003
Information is not a substance or concrete entity but rather a relationship between sets or ensembles of structured variety.
— Walter F. Buckley (1967) Sociology and modern systems theory p. 47
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
— Plato, in Timaeus, 29/30; 4th century BCE
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
— Albert Einstein, in a letter to Alfred Kneser (7 June 1918); Doc. 560 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
— Albert Einstein, in a letter to Alfred Kneser (7 June 1918); Doc. 560 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 8.
The universe is a more spiritual entity than we thought. The real fact is that we are in the midst o a spiritual world which dominates the material.
— Bhgawan Das, in “Treasury Of Spiritual Wisdom A Collection Of 10,000 Powerful Quotations For ...”, p.445
I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.
— Michel Gondry, in Public Sociology without Professional Sociologists: In Search of a New Utopia
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, in This Is the Buddha’s Love]
Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept , so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, “table” is a species of the genus “furniture,” which is a species of the genus “household goods,” which is a species of the genus “man-made objects.” “Man” is a species of the genus “animal,” which is a species of the genus “organism,” which is a species of the genus “entity.”
— Ayn Rand, in The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.200
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition . There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
— Matt Taibbi, in Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
— Ratan Tata, in Soft Skills For A Flat World, p.260
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
— Margaret J. Wheatley, in Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, p.276
The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us....we will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.
yusuf qaradawi— Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions May 2004
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
malcolm (malcolm little) x— In Jawara D. King The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and ..., AuthorHouse, 26 July 2010, p. 199,
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.
— Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America (1970), rev. ed., chapter 10, section 4, p. 296.
