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Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. -- Todd Solondz
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. -- Salman Rushdie
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. -- Andrew Weil
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. -- Michel Foucault
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. -- Tony Hoare
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. -- Steven Levitt
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. -- Steven Erikson
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. -- Serj Tankian
Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. -- Jean Chatzky
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. -- Dianne Feinstein
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms. -- Joel Kinnaman
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. -- Eckhart Tolle
The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. -- Paul Watson
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. -- Steven Pinker
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes. -- Douglas Rushkoff
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. -- Mario Batali
When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. -- David Suzuki
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. -- Philip K. Dick
We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. -- Eric Cantor
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator. -- Dean Ornish
Simple mechanisms do not love. -- Umberto Eco
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. -- Henry Ward Beecher
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. -- Herbert Simon
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek -- Herbert Simon
I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything. -- Marcus Buckingham
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man -- Luke Johnson
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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. -- Barbara Walters
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. -- Robert Fulghum
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. -- Doris Lessing
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. -- Cynthia Kenyon
BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement. -- Narendra Modi
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy. -- Dan Colen
The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart. -- John de Ruiter
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. -- Rush Limbaugh
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. -- Rush Limbaugh
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. -- Neal Stephenson
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric. -- Ernst Mayr
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS. -- Anthony S. Fauci
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People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right. -- Harrison Ford
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control. -- Jamais Cascio
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects! -- Michelle Pfeiffer
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. -- Wilder Penfield
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it. -- Richard Eyre
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. -- Leonardo Boff
I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too. -- Laura Michelle Kelly
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. -- Mark Thomas
Certainty and similar states of "?knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason. -- Robert A. Burton
The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge. -- Toshihiko Fukui
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. -- Noam Chomsky
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment. -- Claude Bernard
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes. -- Garry Kasparov
Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation. -- Leilani Munter
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. -- Michel Foucault
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments. -- Sarah Hall
For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. -- Robbie Jones
I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment. -- Howard Zahniser
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension. -- Alexander Tsiaras
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands. -- Jimmy Carter
Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change. -- Will Steffen
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact. -- Narendra Modi
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice. -- Hal Duncan
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. -- Allen Tate
...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind... -- Wilder Penfield
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious. -- Rollo May
I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results. -- James C. Collins
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable. -- Hilary Kornblith
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
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate. -- Benjamin Graham
Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images. -- Barbara Kruger
On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms. -- David Papineau
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. -- Stephen Jay Gould
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy. -- Don Richard Riso
It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes. -- John Ratey
Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience. -- Matt Ridley
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
It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it. -- Shannon L. Alder
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. -- Henry Mintzberg
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people. -- Robert Heilbroner
You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away. -- Mikko Hypponen
Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment. -- Matthew Fox
Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign. -- Andrea Mitchell
The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies. -- William H. Masters
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence? -- Alexi Murdoch
No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. -- Dianne Feinstein
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist. -- Vikas Swarup
We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them. -- Benjamin Carson
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. -- Harlan Mills
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form. -- August Krogh
The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration. -- John C. Dvorak
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties. -- Douglas Massey
This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis. -- Steven Pinker
War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for. -- Simon Kuznets
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration. -- Barack Obama
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive -- bell hooks

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