#mechanism

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#body #bottom #congress #controlled #controversy

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#choose #could #i #mechanism #philosophy

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #sarcasm #humor

A całą tę sprawę, tak spokojnie i godnie poprowadzoną, minister uznał za sukces, zaś nasza prasa określiła jako zwycięstwo. Tak zawsze jakoś minister kierował, że wszystko na sukces wychodziło i dobrze było, a baliśmy się, że gdyby ministra onego nie stało, wnet by smętkiem powiało, co się potem sprawdziło, kiedy nam go ubyło. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuściński

#political-maneuvering #political-mechanisms #totalitarian-system-mechanisms #totalitarianism

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#continue #discipline #esoteric #experience #i

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#comedy #defense #defense mechanism #i #mechanism

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy of mental disease merely in terms of technique. I believe this dream has been dreamt out. What now begins to loom on the horizon is not psychologized medicine but rather those of human psychiatry. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#merely-a-mechanism #psychiatry #dreams

Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mechanism #memory #nature #record #universe