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Quotes About Entity

Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it another way, size is a supreme regulator of all matters biological. No living entity can evolve or develop without taking size into consideration. Much more than that, size is a prime mover in evolution.
~ John Tyler Bonner
This is it?" I asked. "This is going to keep away an uber-powerful dream entity? It looks like a prop from The Blair Witch Project ." "It can't force her away," he said. "Nothing can. But it might make her think twice. It's more of...a repellent." "Like citronella?" He rolled his eyes. "Yes, like citronella.
~ Richelle Mead
Emotion is far more verb than noun, being not some entity or thing we can get out of our system but a vital process always in some degree of flux.
~ Robert Augustus Masters
To conclude and temporarily halt this train of thought, how does any entity know what it is? Hypothesis: by the actions it performs. There is a kind of comfort in this hypothesis. It represents a solution to the halting problem. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
~ Terence McKenna
Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.
~ Yasser Arafat
That's why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls, at least if by 'soul' we mean something indivisible, immutable and potentially eternal. Such an entity cannot possibly result from a step-by-step evolution. Natural
~ Yuval Noah Harari
When examining the history of any human network, it is therefore advisable to stop from time to time and look at things from the perspective of some real entity. How do you know if an entity is real? Very simple – just ask yourself, 'Can it suffer?' When people burn down the temple of Zeus, Zeus doesn't suffer.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Peugeot is a figment of our collective imagination. Lawyers call this a 'legal fiction'. It can't be pointed at; it is not a physical object. But it exists as a legal entity
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the motherland with the blood of the people. Yet such claims are usually exaggerated. Nations existed in the distant past, but their importance was much smaller than today because the importance of the state was much smaller.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the motherland with the blood of the people.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Any individual entity that presumes to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.
~ Ze Frank
On the issue of statehood, however, the committee held back. Having encountered adamant and militant Arab protests in the course of its investigation, it recommended against either a Jewish or Arab state, proposing instead an eventual binational entity where both groups could express their legitimate national aspirations.
~ Debi Unger
For a growing number of physicists, the fine-tuning problem can be solved only by accepting that the entire cosmos is a single, continuous entity, working in seamless harmony like the human body.
~ Deepak Chopra
Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
~ Frederick Lenz
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
~ James Lovelock
The door might not have been created by whatever had created Area X.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It's a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn't make it up.
~ Alexandra Kleeman
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~ Bill Frist
We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.
~ Rem Koolhaas
I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.
~ Steve Mnuchin
Your physical body and this life force have come together to form the entity that answers to your name. They are joined by your breath. Breathing is worth noticing and appreciating.
~ Rick Carson
The critical rules and critical data are inextricably bound, so they are a good candidate for an object. We'll call this kind of object an Entity.1
~ Robert C. Martin
History was a patchwork of voids. The great university libraries and public archives had mostly rotted away or been used as fuel in the Dark Age. An entire generation's correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called 'The Cloud'.
~ Robert Harris