#terms

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

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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

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #art form #been #biggest #century

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#between #choice #clear #contest #could

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#divide #evil #good #good and evil #liberals

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#day #every #every day #fan #fan mail

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. ↗

— Emily Procter

#always #careful #clothes #could #deserve