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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. -- Walter Gilbert
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it. -- Will Wright
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. -- Christopher Lasch
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. -- Abbie Hoffman
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. -- Dick Cheney
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. -- Kofi Annan
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. -- Larry Niven
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. -- Valerie Jarrett
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others. -- Paul David Tripp
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools." -- Russell Shorto
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools. -- Russell Shorto
In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved. -- Rem Koolhaas
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. -- Viktor Yushchenko
To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me. -- Tim Cook
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. -- Betty Smith
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. -- Robert B. Laughlin
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation. -- Pat Robertson
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. -- Gerry Spence
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. -- John McCain
Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. -- Gerry Spence
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer. -- Jim Walton
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. -- Baldwin Spencer
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work. -- Chuck Close
If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe. -- Gregory Bateson
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another. -- Steven Pinker
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success. -- Troy Polamalu
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. -- Story Musgrave
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. -- David Petraeus
YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video. -- Eric Schmidt
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded. -- Alton Brown
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. -- Stephen Covey
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. -- Dick Morris
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. -- Rick Riordan
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. -- Christopher Alexander
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. -- Glenn Greenwald
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. -- Alice Waters
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here. -- Sean M. Carroll
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us. -- Alan Moore
My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork. -- David Brooks
Man is embedded in nature. -- Lewis Thomas
The future is embedded in the present. -- John Naisbitt
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. -- Albrecht Durer
Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. -- Albrecht Durer
Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. -- David Suzuki
Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration. -- Marc Benioff
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. -- Clay Shirky
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. -- Matthea Harvey
There's honesty embedded everywhere when you see the world through the eyes of a child. -- Jinvirle
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. -- David Bayles
I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me. -- Mila Kunis
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. -- Robert Fisk
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. -- Janine di Giovanni
We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself! -- Gangai Victor
If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble. -- Henry B. Eyring
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard. -- Amy Richards
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness. -- Prana Gogia
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded. -- Eric Schmidt
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. -- David Batstone
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. -- Alan Hirsch
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Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. -- Tim Wise
The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew. -- Tariq Ali
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. -- Edward Norton
The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness. -- Phil Klay
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. -- Satish Kumar
Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. -- Auliq Ice
If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each. -- Jason Mraz
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life. -- Simon Conway Morris
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical. -- David S. Goyer
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side. -- Alan Huffman
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. -- Terence McKenna
There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. -- Charles Duhigg
There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians. -- Tariq Ramadan
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them. -- E. Stanley Jones
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. -- Deepak Chopra
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. -- Jonathan Michel Metzl
Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate. -- Richard Pascale
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery. -- Gerry Spence
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks. -- Shashi Tharoor
No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. -- Noam Chomsky
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.. -- Oliver Sacks
Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance. -- Eduardo Paes
The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game -- Rachel Cohn
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me. -- Jesse Stuart
...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film. -- Andy Grundberg
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently. -- Talal Asad
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to. -- Anne Waldman
I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth. -- June Millington
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer. -- Jim Walton
When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan. -- Travie McCoy
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas. -- Daniel Pauly
We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality. -- Stanislav Grof
The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if. -- Joan Wickersham
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human. -- Josef Pieper
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone. -- Ursula Goodenough
America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution. -- Ron Paul
A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things. -- Jimmy Carter
For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun. -- Jeremy Scahill
People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor. -- Paul Krassner
The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol. -- Benjamin Creme
In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time. -- Thomas Metzinger
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. -- Saint Teresa of Avila

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