philosophy

"Willem de Kooning, they say, lost his memory. He lost his worldly memory. He lost the names of the people, he lost their faces.. .This is one of the reasons he paints as a real painter."

"25-50% of the population... breath through their mouth. ... neurological problems... respiratory problems... snoring,, evens"

"The Scriptural doctrine in regard to repentance is not, that a man must repent in order to his being qualified to go to Christ; it is rather, that he must go to Christ in order to his being able to re…"

"What I did also served as a way to spit in the face of the well-meaning bourgeoisie..."

"Let me tell you something, the end game, Paul, for Congress and this president — and I don't know how many members of Congress even realize the game that they are either being used in or a pawn in. Bu…"

"I never conduct any of the ballets I conducted for the Ballets Russes, without my mind's eye being completely aware of the dancers."

"In order to ensure absolute equality the new race may demand .either that sex be abolished, or that every human being be of both sexes. Perhaps the very perfecting process will either unsex or androgy…"

"Playing for the country is an honour. The ultimate honour, in fact. If you want to look at it as pressure, you will find it very difficult to cope with the expectations of a billion people. I look at …"

"Soon, many European elites insinuated that the jihadist attacks had some moral justification. These anti-American views began to circulate well before the campaign to dislodge the Taliban kicked off o…"

"Organizational theory is one of the most vibrant areas in sociological research. Scholars from many subfields, have felt compelled to study organizational theory because of the obviously important rol…"

"A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying."

"“How about,” she said, “that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?"

"When an individual's or group's basic survival is threatened, stress becomes tremendous, and productivity drops. Under these conditions a manager's ability to reason and maintain a proper focus on dev…"

"The more prominence Hinduism gets abroad, even for wrong reasons like the new age and paganism, the more prestige it gains in India."

"The greatest work of the composer is often sublimation, that is, the deflection of energies, thoughts, occurrences, psychological and physical reactions, into socially constructive or creative channel…"

"An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technologic…"

"In a loosely coupled system there is more room available for self-determination by the actors. If it is argued that a sense of efficacy is crucial for human beings. ihen a sense of efficacy might be g…"

"He's lost the plot, people tell me. He's drifting rudderless in the wide Sargasso Sea of New Labour's ideological vacuum."

"Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two."

"I firmly believe that the primary role of the tabla is saath-sangat. Which is why I enjoy being on stage with Shivji , Amjadbhai or Birju Maharaj. I look forward to these concerts. Unlike a solo conce…"