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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.
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))
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).
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
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business — live concerts.
elvis presley— Press conference (5 September 1972), also quoted in Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons (2007) by Gene N Landrum, p. 60
Whatever the costs in terms of sacrifice, the fruits of resistance are always greater than the damage generated from resignation to occupation, succumbing to its blows and acquiescing to its conditions.
naim qassem— .
His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.
wilfrid sheed— "The Interview as Art" (1976), p. 208
— Referring to W. H. Auden
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.
There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
will durant— Chapter 30, part 1, p. 652.
Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography; and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.
Andrea Dworkin— Pornography and Male Supremacy (1981), Letters from a War Zone, p 230.
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
donald knuth— Vol. II, Seminumerical Algorithms
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))
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)
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.
l. neil smith— "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet"[41] 20 June 2010
For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it’s the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated.
Susan Sontag— “‘Thinking against oneself’: reflections on Cioran,” p. 79
I'm a very large creator of wealth, I like that. I like finding new companies and investing in them very early and seeing an enormous amount of wealth being generated.
— Alberto Vilar, from his interview in The Sunday Times, 19th March 2000.
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.
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
james clerk maxwell— James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat Ch.3 "Calorimetry" (1871)
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes [nuclear generated] electrical energy too cheap to meter.
— Lewis Straus, Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954.
Moksha or freedom is the Swabhava, the inherent constitution and essence of the soul and is not to be supposed as generated in the Soul through the action of anything else.
— Nalini Kanta Brahma, in “The Fundamentals Of Religion (22 September 2007)”, p.101
If you mean that the proximity of one color should give beauty to another that terminates near it, observe the rays of the sun in the composition of the rainbow, the colors of which are generated by the falling rain, when each drop in its descent takes every color of the bow.
leonardo da vinci— Treatise on Painting (c. 1490)
