#purely

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#assumption #been #cause #confirms #event

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#establish #everything #explosion #including #israel

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#collective #demographic #economic #economic growth #futures

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. ↗

— John Burns

#construct #course #ended #hour #i

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. ↗

— David Chalmers

#agree #argue #because #certain #conceivable

I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years. ↗

— Holly Valance

#been #being #debut #entrance #i

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#because #being #desire #i #luckily