Entity quotes

Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.
-- Ali Khamenei

#Israel #Middle East #Entity

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.
-- Andrew Card

#Government #Entity #Homeland Security

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Construction #Logical #Entity

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.
-- Daniel D. Palmer

#Disease #Chiropractic #Entity

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
-- David Rockefeller

#Government #Logical #Entity

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.
-- Giuseppe Peano

#Numbers #Operations #Entity

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System
-- Harry Reid

#World #Entity #Federal Reserve

An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.
-- Henry Stapp

#Essence #Vegetarian #Entity

The music becomes something that is its own entity.
-- Herbie Hancock

#Jazz #Entity

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds
-- Howard Gardner

#Mind #Natural #Entity

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
-- John Dingell

#Aggravation #Congress #Entity

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Ideas #Entity #Persona

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.
-- Kalle Lasn

#World #Want #Entity

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.
-- Ludwig von Mises

#Process #Entity #Collectives

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Independent #Entity #Isolated

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.
-- Mariah Carey

#Waiting #Lines #Entity

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
-- Michael Eisner

#Gestures #Consciousness #Entity

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
-- Michael Shermer

#Soul #Body #Entity

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
-- Mitchell Baker

#Development #Certain #Entity

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Structure #Entity #Apartheid

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
-- Pat Mitchell

#Media #Entity #Broadcasting

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
-- Peter Straub

#Want #Fiction #Entity

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
-- Plato

#Soul #World #Entity

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
-- Ralph Cudworth

#Mind #Entity #True Knowledge

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
-- Ratan Tata

#Ethics #Entity #Left Behind

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Humanity #Survival #Entity

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.
-- Richard Swinburne

#Jobs #Crazy #Entity

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
-- Robert Lanza

#Entity #Mathematical #Protect

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
-- Scott Ian

#Zombie #Appeals #Entity

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
-- Val Kilmer

#Thinking #Selling #Entity

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
-- Vince Cable

#Abuse #Entity

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
-- William of Ockham

#Numbers #Entity #Increase

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
-- William of Ockham

#Stupidity #Entity

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
-- William of Ockham

#Entity

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
-- William of Ockham

#Science #Should #Entity

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
-- William P. Leahy

#Trying #Culture #Entity

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.
-- Doug Walters

#Weed #Enough #Entity

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.
-- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#Virtue #Entity #Propositions

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.
-- Mariana Mazzucato

#Outcomes #Static #Entity

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.
-- Mark Kac

#Discipline #Mathematics #Entity

Large corporate entities are more untrusted than trusted. And they've earned that by the way they've done things.
-- Ronald M. Shaich

#Done #Way #Entity

People have been oversold, over-branded, overhyped, over-promised. And they basically trust a small local operator more than they trust the big corporate entity.
-- Ronald M. Shaich

#People #Bigs #Entity

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.
-- Walter Kasper

#Islam #Entity #Ambiguous

Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.
-- Roger Garaudy

#People #Want #Entity

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
-- Jacques Hadamard

#Defining #Entity #Existence

The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
-- Victor Turner

#Law #Conventions #Entity