#external

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. ↗

— George B. McClellan

#blood #cost #each #external #insure

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #consciousness #excited #external #nerves

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #communicating #digestive #entire #external

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. ↗

— William Whewell

#cannot #course #degree #external #external things

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure. ↗

— Wu Yi

#external #pressure #reform #right #time

A two-headed man should have twice the IQ, and the ability to have internal dialogues externally.
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— Jarod Kintz

#external #head #intelligence #internal-dialogue #iq

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#already #because #does #external #fiction

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. ↗

— Larry Bird

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