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Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
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At thirty-six, bereft, brimming with grief and thwarted love,Quoyle steered away to Newfoundland, the rock that had generated his ancestors, a place he had never been nor thought to go.
Annie Proulx— 1993 The Shipping News, ch.1.
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical – in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
antoni tàpies— p. 28 (In: Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003, 2004)
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
barbara tuchman— p. 469 (A Distant Mirror (1978))
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by “the death of God” and of the subordinate god, Eros.
Allan Bloom— p. 15 (Love and Friendship (1993))
There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.
robert h. jackson— P. 962. ("The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary" (1953))
What was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability, a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of protein molecules that were too impossibly ingenious in structure.
thomas mann— Ch. 5 (The Magic Mountain (1924))
For a daily Agnihotra ( Balivaishva ) a small copper pot is used. The inverted pyramid shaped Agnihotra pot receives, generates, and decentralizes electrosphere ....Apart from the pyramid shape, some other special symmetric geometrical designs are also used according to the kind of energy fields and the cosmic currents required to be generated by the Yagna.
— In P.9 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see they very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.
— Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984).
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.
coretta scott king— Address at Georgia State University (15 February 2000)
The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.
michael lewis— Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 122
Nothing would probably please him more than to get the publicity that would be generated by a public repudiation by the President.
Joseph McCarthy— US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on declining to publicly confront McCarthy's strategies, as quoted in The Party of Fear (1988), by David Harry Bennett, p. 304
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
ogden nash— "The Anatomy of Happiness"
Pavarotti made a profound contribution not only to music and the arts, but also to people in need around the world. His work for children — particularly those affected by armed conflict — stretched from Afghanistan to Liberia and beyond. By staging concerts and marshaling talented friends to help raise funds, he generated millions of dollars for humanitarian aid.
Luciano Pavarotti— U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
donald knuth— Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.1
Dostoevsky’s underground man … observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. … He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.
john carroll— p. 148 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
One of these is an increasing awareness of the benefits to our economy, particularly in terms of investment and enterprise, both local and from overseas, of not having the inquisitorial type of tax system inevitably associated with a full income tax. Another is that even I, who have always believed in the vigour of our economy under our present tax regime, have been surprised by the growth of revenue generated at our present tax rates.
john james cowperthwaite— March 29, 1967, page 248.
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.
stephen hawking— From an appearance in the Discovery Channel program Alien Planet (14 May 2005)
The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.
robert heilbroner— Chapter II, Part 5, The Terrible Ascent, p. 81
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
donald knuth— Vol. II, Seminumerical Algorithms
My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."
thomas pynchon— Phone call to CNN (5 June 1997)
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
donald knuth— Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.1
Until the beginning of the twentieth century most of Ahmedabad’s population resided within the Fort Walls [on the eastern bank of the Sabaramati River. The opening of the first Ahmedabad textile mill in 1861 and of the railway line between Ahmedabad and Bombay [now Mumbai] three years was a harbinger of the city’s rapid expansion. The developing textile industry generated waves of migration into the city and extensive growth of its population and territory.
— Ornit Shani, in Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat, Cambridge University Press, 12 July 2007, p.25
By the late 1930s all nationalist movements had generated [[w:Historiography|historolographical writing. Poetry , essays , plays , and fiction , as well as aural and visual representations ( maps , cartoons , lithographs , sculpture , songs , film); all were generative of politically infused historical consciousness .
— S.P.Sen in Historians and Histiriography, quoted by Mary E. Hancock, in p.223
Today some evidence arises that UML will more and more be used not as a specification language but as a high level programming language. This has some advantages, as if the concepts of UML are executable, they can immediately be animated and tested, or the generated code even be used as implementation. Thus UML probably will have an implementation-oriented semantics describing this animation.
— Bernhard Rumpe (1998) "A Note on Semantics (with an Emphasis on UML)." Proceedings of Second ECOOP Workshop on Precise Behavioral Semantics. 1998.
In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.
— Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein, Me the media: rise of the conversation society, VINT editions (research institute of Sogeti), 2009, p.270.
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
— As quoted in Selected Speeches and Writings (1980) edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov
Celebrities always get a lot of interest and the passing of well-known figures makes people want to learn more about them. Despite that, some of the more traditional aspects of British life, from the Grand National to the royal birth, have generated many Google searches and will be remembered as events that have characterized the year.
— Claudine Beaumont, one of Google's workers, "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013", December 17, 2013.
Anaximander the Milesian, affirmed the infinite to be the first principle, and that all things are generated out of it, and corrupted again into it. His infinite is nothing else but matter.
— Plutarch, as quoted by Benjamin Franklin Cocker in Christianity and Greek Philosophy; Or, The Relation Between Spontaneous and Reflective Thought in Greece and the Positive Teaching of Christ and His Apostles (1872)
Luxurious food and drinks , in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy .
— From the esplanade wall at Oenoanda, now in Turkey, as recorded by Diogenes of Oenoanda
