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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. -- Carroll Quigley
The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. -- Mitchell Reiss
Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations. -- Robert Gilpin
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising. -- Andrew Hacker
Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from. -- Frederick Lenz
Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music. -- Lady Gaga
I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms. -- Bill Walsh
What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States. -- Condoleezza Rice
I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like. -- Jenji Kohan
The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us. -- Michele Flournoy
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu. -- Joan Didion
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment. -- Karl Marx
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality -- Alfred North Whitehead
The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right. -- John Battelle
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something. -- Carl Hiaasen
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe. -- Terence McKenna
Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not. -- Stephen King
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. -- Margaret Atwood
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. -- Chris Hughes
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. -- Ludwig von Mises
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. -- Frank Herbert
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience. -- Garry Kasparov
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed. -- Garrett Hardin
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you. -- Frederick Lenz
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. -- Joan Didion
Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from. -- Frederick Lenz
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are. -- Glen Duncan

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