#modification

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#distributed #expression #find #however #like

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#modification #plan

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ask #asking #austria #austrian #been

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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