#served

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#confidence #emotions #fantastic #felt #freedom

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ↗

— Eliphas Levi

#attracts #awkward #because #disorder #intrusive

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian #asian american #below #black #female

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition. ↗

— Logan Marshall-Green

#find #i #just #less #more

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#interpreted #laws #liberal #may #preserved

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. ↗

— Steve Martin

#being #ego #found #front #high