#phenomenon

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#beginning #every #moment #most #notable

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#been #began #caught #dark #dark shadows

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share. ↗

— Antonio Perez

#believe #business #fact #gaining #in fact

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#industry #leader #made #phenomenon #play

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#around #banner #classroom #discovered #earliest

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#familiar #fully #island #modern #phenomenon