#term

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. ↗

— Robert Plant

#americana #boundaries #generic #go #like

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#life #me #much #pure #randomness

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. ↗

— Plato

#direction #education #future #his #life

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. ↗

— John Podesta

#dialogue #discussion #facts #gives #hungry

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#cause #chance #considerable #determines #due

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#fiction #future #i #magazine #might

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#determined #ever #fully #inanimate #laws