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It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.
roger penrose— Ch. 6, Quantum Magic and Quantum Mastery, p. 269
The new form of Odissi had its old historic roots yet it had changed to conform to the changing cultural trends of the people during the 1950s-60s. Earlier it was bound within the religious doors of the Hindu temples but upon its revival it became a more public or secular form of art and was performed on stage world wide.
— In "Dance and Architecture: Body, Form, Space and Transformation", p.25
We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. ... But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
— Susan Cain (2012) "Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'," NPR, January 30, 2012.
You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes or endeavouring to move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
john dryden— 1668 Of Ben Jonson. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.
The delicate operation of separating an American from the four-wheeled part of him has to be performed with tact.
philip johnson— 1955 'The Town and the Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street', published in Writings (1979).
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
john kenneth galbraith— The Affluent Society, Chapter 17, Section I (1958, pg. 190).
Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.
robert gordis— "The Biblical Text in the Making", p.1
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
václav havel— Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
George Steiner— "A Death of Kings"
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
harriet beecher stowe— Household Papers and Stories, Part 2, Chapter 4 (1864)
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.
christopher hitchens— "Excerpt from 'The Portable Atheist'", USA Today, 1 November 2007, ISSN 0161-7389
Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced “muscle fatigue,” lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, “the ego in me” made the effort worthwhile.
jack la lanne— In "Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times."
Enjoin him to play so many hours every day, and look that he do it; and you shall see he will quickly be sick of it; and willing to leave it. By this means making the recreations you dislike a business to him, he will of himself with delight betake himself to those things you would have him do, especially if they be proposed as rewards for having performed the task in that play which is commanded of him.
john locke— Sec. 129 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
"... faith and repentance , i. e. believing Jesus to be the Messiah, and a good life, are the indispensable conditions of the new covenant, to be performed by all those who would obtain eternal life. (The reasonableness, or rather necessity of which, that we may the better comprehend, we must a little look back to what was said in the beginning"
john locke— § 106
Which was performed to a T.
françois rabelais— Chapter 41. (Fourth Book (1548, 1552))
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
bertrand russell— The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character.
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.
margaret sanger— Chapter 10, "Contraceptives or Abortion?"
We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. ... But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
— Susan Cain (2012) "Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'," NPR, January 30, 2012.
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
— Václav Havel, in an address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, as quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990), referring to his work as an absurdist playwright.
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
— Chapter XIX, paragraph 2, lines 1-6 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
In enterprise modelling, we want to define the actions performed within an enterprise, and define constraints for plans and schedules which are constructed to satisfy the goals of the enterprise. This leads to the following set of informal competency questions:
— Temporal projection - Given a set of actions that occur at different points in the future, what are the properties of resources and activities at arbitrary points in time?
— Planning and scheduling - what sequence of activities must be completed to achieve some goal? At what times must these activities be initiated and terminated?
— Execution monitoring and external events - What are the effects of the occurrence of external and unexpected events (such as machine breakdown or the unavailability of resources) on a plan or schedule?
— Time-based competition - we want to design an enterprise that minimizes the cycle time for a product. This is essentially the task of finding a minimum duration plan that minimizes action occurrences and maximizes concurrency of activities.
— Michael Grüninger and Mark S. Fox (1995) "Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies." p. 3-4
Brethren, léife is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God this abides forever, this alone is imperishable.
— Richard Fuller, p. 198. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The consciousness of duty performed gives us music at midnight.
— George Herbert, p. 200. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In heaven, we shall never regret any sacrifice however painful, or labor however protracted, made or performed here for the cause of Christ.
— Mary Lyon, p. 533. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But the duty to which you have called me must be performed; grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy .
— Edward Everett in Western Christian Advocate, Volume 77, 1911, p.11
No matter how it is worded or performed, abortion hurts women. This won’t stop until women stand up in unison and say, ‘This is unacceptable. We deserve better.’ Lack of emotional and financial resources are the real undue burden and abortion will never lift that.
— Serrin Foster, president of Feminists For Life, press release, (June 28, 2000).
Our investigation revealed that the criminal conduct of Gosnell and his workers extended beyond the drug violations to nearly every aspect of the clinic’s operations. Gosnell routinely and deliberately killed babies born alive by severing their spinal cords with surgical scissors, and encouraged his employees to do the same. He performed illegal abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy, often falsifying gestational ages to disguise his criminal conduct.
— GRAND JURY XXIII (Philadelphia County) presentment recommending prosecution of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for murder, infanticide, and unlawful late-term abortion [22].
The fact is that late term abortions are exceedingly rare. They are performed only when necessary to preserve a woman's health or life, or when a woman is carrying a fetus with lethal anomalies, many of which would die soon after birth. Again, the fact is that these abortions, these terminations are compelled by life and, life and health reasons and grave fetal abnormalities.
— Kate Michelman, President, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League [NARAL], at a news conference, (November 7, 1995).
