#mechanism

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. ↗

— Linda Vester

#easy #get #hardened #journalist #just

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#best friend #coping #food #friend #i

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#adaptation #been #biology #centrality #discovering

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#countries #economic #mechanism #same #style

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#friendship #mechanism #oil #politeness #refined

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. ↗

— David Duke

#cultures #destroy #israel #jews #mechanism

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#continues #discipline #each #elsewhere #entrusted

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#again #beating #because #become #best

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. ↗

— Gary Neville

#back #bounce #call #could #developed