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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism. -- Christine Lagarde
The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money. -- Martin Schulz
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history. -- Brendan Myers
Money is a mechanism for control. -- David Korten
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. -- Robert Redford
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. -- Justin Trudeau
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. -- Julian Assange
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals. -- Craig Mello
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. -- David E. Kelley
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. -- Bill Gates
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. -- David Perlmutter
You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. -- Erik Qualman
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. -- David R. Brower
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. -- Jay Inslee
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. -- Jacques Lacan
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven. -- Joe Rogan
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before. -- Seth Godin
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. -- A. S. Byatt
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. -- Max Born
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. -- Simon Mainwaring
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves. -- Dan Ariely
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. -- Marianne Williamson
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. -- Gary Neville
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ. -- Stephen Covey
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself! -- Burt Rutan
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.' -- Mike Vogel
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. -- Ani DiFranco
Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism. -- James Elkins
Truth is an all-freeing mechanism. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism -- David Crystal
All I was was a mechanism. -- Edward Snowden
Failure is the mechanism of learning. -- Geoffrey Ballard
People use irony as a defense mechanism. -- David Byrne
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. -- Rihanna
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. -- Deepak Chopra
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury. -- Michael Parenti
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. -- Honore de Balzac
Conscious effort inhibits and "?jams' the automatic creative mechanism. -- Maxwell Maltz
For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. -- Rosalind Kaplan
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. -- Gene Wolfe
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me. -- Brooke Shields
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction. -- Simon Blackburn
I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. -- Katharine Jefferts Schori
The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace -- Gillian Sorensen
Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. -- Zack Love
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. -- Shirley Williams
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. -- John Major
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. -- Max Brooks
We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. -- Garry Shandling
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. -- Chris Hardwick
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism. -- Charlotte Gerson
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. -- Ilya Prigogine
The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. -- John Bradshaw
I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism. -- Sherri Shepherd
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. -- Emmanuel Jal
Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback. -- Scott Weiss
Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both. -- Jane Fonda
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism. -- Sherri Shepherd
I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester. -- Peter DeLuise
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. -- Richard Paul Evans
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. -- Peter Shumlin
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required. -- Allison Mackie
The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism -- John Searle
A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives. -- Sarah-Patton Boyle
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism. -- Judd Apatow
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being. -- John P. Wheeler III
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. -- Tom G. Palmer
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism. -- Tessanne Chin
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. -- Gregory S. Paul
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. -- Anatoly Chubais
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism. -- Tessanne Chin
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. -- Daniel Kahneman
The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory. -- Eric Maskin
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, -- Julia Gillard
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. -- Monica Raymund
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. -- Isaac Asimov
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. -- Henry Wallich
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. -- John Battelle
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. -- Warren Buffett
I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. -- Tom Stoppard
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. -- Pat Conroy
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. -- Margaret Bechard
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. -- Frank Herbert
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine. -- Wallace Stevens
No one ever thinks they're awful, even people who really actually are. It's some sort of survival mechanism. -- Emily St. John Mandel
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control. -- Joseph Pilates
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. -- Lawrence Wright
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. -- Charles Handy
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. -- Thomas Piketty
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place. -- Eve Ensler
Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick. -- Eric Maskin
Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined. -- Henry Fairfield Osborn
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. -- James R Newman
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves. -- Mark Batterson
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread. -- Johann Arndt
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead? -- Galway Kinnell
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. -- Phil McGraw
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. -- Ann Zwinger
It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society. -- Rush Limbaugh

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