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The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.
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It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom at a very deep bottom, in most instances an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the resistering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe .
john archibald wheeler— From the paper "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links" which appeared in Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information edited by Wojciech H. Zurek (1990), p. 5.
If we see [our lives] from the outside, as the influence and popular dissemination of the social sciences and psychiatry has persuaded more and more people to do, we view ourselves as instances of generalities, and in so doing become profoundly and painfully alienated from our own experience and our humanity.
— Susan Sontag, “On Style,” Against Interpretation, p. 29
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give!” The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.
Abigail Adams— Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775).
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams— Letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch (1784).
Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence.
brougham, henry, 1st baron brougham and vaux— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 261.
Only a personal experience of it, or a prolonged study of men who have passed into the new life, will enable us to realize what this actually is; but it has seemed to the present writer that to pass in review, even briefly and imperfectly, instances in which the condition in question has existed would be worth while.
Richard Maurice Bucke— First Words.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
jack kevorkian— Quoted in "Years of Minutes"? - Page 332 - by Andy Rooney - 2004
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
thomas paine— Part 1.3 Rights of Man
Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.
william whewell— Part 2, Book 11, ch. 5, sect. 3, art. 10
How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
john ashcroft— p. 263 (Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006))
Now and then, an extraordinary case may turn up, but constitutional law, like other mortal contrivances, has to take some chances, and in the great majority of instances, no doubt, justice will be done.
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell— Blinn v. Nelson, 222 U.S. 1, 7 (1911).
While it is true that many Muslim scholars who composed their works in Arabic, both in the religious and in the intellectual sciences, have been of non-Arab descent, Ibn Khald?n's use of the term Arab in his history seems to indicate a class of people and not a group. Most scholars believe that, in many instances, Ibn Khald?n uses the name Arab to mean bedouin. Other scholars, such as Mohamed Chafik, deny this.
ibn khaldun— Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History pp. 14-16 (1950)
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses."
james madison— Letter to William Bradford (September 1773), quoted in The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (2000) by John Thomas Noonan, p. 66
In the history of medicine, there are few instances in which a disease has been more accurately, more graphically or more briefly described.
william osler— In reference to "On Chorea" (1872) by George Huntington on what is now known as Huntington's Disease, as quoted in "Huntington's Chorea" by Irwin A. Brody and Robert H. Wilkins in Archives of Neurology Vol. 17, No. 3 (1967). The acclaim Huntington received for this paper, his first, from Osler and others, he would later refer to as an "unsought, unlooked for honor."
...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
karl popper— Ch. 1 "A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems", Section I: The Problem of Induction, p. 27
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.
john stuart mill— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, pp. 36-37 (1859)
No man can avail himself of his own fraud to avoid the law. We have instances even in the criminal law where a man shall not be permitted to avoid the law by fraud.
— Grove, J., Doe v. Carter (1799), 8 T. R. 302.
A neutral observer would have no difficulty in identifying instances of disconnect between government and people, most obviously in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes where civil society’s voices are muzzled and where peaceful protests are prohibited or severely suppressed,24 but also to a lesser degree in democracies, particularly “representative democracies” that do not genuinely represent, business-driven democracies and so-called “lobby-democracies”, where elected officials tend to be more responsive to the lobbies than to the population.
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [27]
Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining.
— Richard Graves, Olla Podrida 6 October 1787
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
— Diane Garnick by Wall Street Journal[3]
It is truly remarked that all the particular instances of contempts it would be endless to enumerate.
— Williams, J., Miller v. Knox (1838), 4 Bing. N. C. 589.
From the earliest period of our history this authority has been exercised. The Year-books record instances of such commitments.
— Best, J., R. v. Davison (1821), 4 B. & A. 340.
Some instances of strength of memory are very surprising.
— Buller, J., Coleman v. Wathen (1793), 5 T. R. 245.
The great end, for which men enter into society, was to preserve their property. That right is preserved sacred and incommunicable in all instances, where it has not been taken away or abridged by some public law for the good of the whole. . . . Distresses, executions, forfeitures, taxes, &c, are all of this description; wherein every man, by common consent gives up that right, for the sake of justice and general good.
— Lord Camden, Entick v. Carrington (1765), 19 How. St. Tr. 1066.
While it is true that many Muslim scholars who composed their works in Arabic, both in the religious and in the intellectual sciences, have been of non-Arab descent, Ibn Khald?n's use of the term Arab in his history seems to indicate a class of people and not a group. Most scholars believe that, in many instances, Ibn Khald?n uses the name Arab to mean bedouin. Other scholars, such as Mohamed Chafik, deny this.
— Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History pp. 14-16 (1950)
As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.
— Peter Norvig, August 2000, on comp.lang.functional
As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.
— Peter Norvig, August 2000, on comp.lang.functional
'Form' has always come into being in a dialogue between particular 'instances' and the larger body of work, or 'tradition.'
richard middleton— Middleton, Richard (1999). Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. ISBN 0631212639.
"'Form' has always come into being in a dialogue between particular 'instances' and the larger body of work, or 'tradition.'"
— Richard Middleton (1999). Form. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture, p.141. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.
