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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW! -- Tom Peters
In any film there's always a historical implication. -- Oliver Stone
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. -- Henry Louis Gates
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. -- David Byrne
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves. -- Emily Oster
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? -- James Hillman
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. -- Edwin Meese
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. -- Eudora Welty
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves. -- Jennifer Armintrout
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair. -- David Henry Hwang
It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers? -- Jake Gyllenhaal
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All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication. -- David Novak
By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. -- Pete Seeger
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. -- Michel Gondry
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes. -- Jo Brand
People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple. -- Ada Yonath
I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school. -- Julia Quinn
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. -- John Shelton Reed
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them. -- Bruce Lipton
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book. -- Nancy Werlin
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. -- Edward Abbey
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. -- Robert Genn
The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. -- Robert Adams
There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself. -- Cassandra Clare
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. -- Isobelle Carmody
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. -- Robert Jordan
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop. -- Noam Chomsky
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. -- Marcus Aurelius
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control. -- Thomas Szasz
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems -- Ken Robinson
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society. -- Max Frisch
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it. -- Tariq Ali
I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener. -- Terry Bozzio
In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise. -- Hope Powell
You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener. -- Reggie Watts
The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry. -- Marianne Williamson
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method. -- Walter J. Phillips
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality. -- Jacques Barzun
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others. -- Kenneth Waltz
The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains. -- Judy Woodruff
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant. -- Raymond Geuss
The countries outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty also are bound by that obligation [ Article Six of the treaty] according to, at least it's a strong implication of, a 1996 opinion of the International Court of Justice. -- John Burroughs

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