#mechanism

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#came #commercialization #defense #defense mechanism #i

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. ↗

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#essential #like #mechanism #part #watch

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. ↗

— David Suzuki

#away #been #deals #delay #desire

The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms. ↗

— Diane Douglas

#billions #concerned #control #countries #dedicated

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

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

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

— Garry Shandling

#comedy #defense #defense mechanism #i #mechanism

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#body #condition #function #furthermore #laborers

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. ↗

— Mario Batali

#away #far #far away #food #get