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The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.
Bernardo Houssay
Heart
Pressure
Control
Sugar
Other
Complex
Those
Constancy
Temperature
Rate
Physiological
Maintain
Maintained
Normal
Blood
Blood Pressure
Heart Rate
Same
Order
Which
Body
Many
Mechanism
Functions
Level
Levels
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
History
Sky
Made
Important
Every
Heritage
Our
Books
Complex
Those
Astronomical
Kind
Some
Poets
Like
Most
Wrote
Instruments
Scientists
Were
Intellectual
Western
Intellectuals
The Most Important
Influential
Literary
Disk
Pagan
Who
Mechanism
Including
I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Life
Whatever
Young
Pain
Think
Everyone
Kind
Some
Pretty
Had
Individually
Stuff
Deal
Dealing
Just
Different
Story
Us
Create
Use
Mechanism
Mechanisms
Each
In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
Chris Adami
You
Fight
Animal
World
Decision
Binary
Example
Long
Recognition
Evolutionary
Evolve
Would
Kinds
Animal World
Environment
For Example
Know
Also
Knowing
Because
Opponent
Same
Behaviors
Any
Flee
Your
Mechanism
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
Chris Hardwick
Survival
Creative
Comics
Movement
Really
Standup
Mechanism
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.
Clint Smith
Black
Country
Resources
Has-Been
Must
Black Americans
Logic
Operate
Operating
Policy
Been
Historic
Account
American
Intentional
Experienced
Central
Public
Race
Centuries
Aspiration
Public Policy
Mechanism
Whose
One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.
Colin Angle
Home
Technology
Class
People
Big
Community
Living
Out
Stay
Stay-At-Home
Staying
Allow
Supports
Healthcare
Coming
Reform
Big Things
Which
Them
Act
Mechanism
Thing
Things
Services
Assistance
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
Plants
Animals
Reliable
Variety
Genes
Proven
Off
Quite
Different
Turning
Interference
Plants And Animals
Whole
Mechanism
There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
Damon Lindelof
Life
God
You
Word
Whatever
Believe
Living
Some
Between
Force
Call
Behind
Want
Whether
Use
Reason
Beings
Mechanism
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
Work
Beautiful
You
Mind
Those
Tell
About
Fails
Failures
Devices
Well
How
Lot
Experts
Works
Mechanism
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
People
Defense
Defense Mechanism
Irony
Use
Mechanism
There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on.
David Crystal
You
Old
Doctors
Own
Group
Every
Lawyers
Linguistic
Chief
Little
Social
Social Group
Means
Use
Show
Gang
Mechanism
Slang
Bonding
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
Best
Law
Behavior
Ethics
Think
Our
Morality
More
Toward
Because
Times
Than
Human
Human Behavior
Certainly
Mechanism
Gravitate
The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.
Douglas Tompkins
Work
Needs
World
Year
Own
Our
Resources
Eating
Economic
Economic Activity
Computer
Consuming
Days
Acceleration
Non-Stop
Does
Narrow
Real
Up
Just
Real Work
Processing
Manufacturing
Mechanism
Activity
Satisfy
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
Knowledge
Systems
Uncertainty
Generate
Economies
Owing
Essence
May
Process
Which
Much
Capitalist
Mechanism
Growth
I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.
Edward Snowden
Work
Home
Me
Will
Country
Important
Own
Way
Would
Russia
My Own
Never
Simply
Make
Disclosure
Continue
Very
Same
Happens
Prefer
Much
Mechanism
Chose
Serve
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella Maillart
Life
Knowledge
Big
Feared
Direct
Towns
Conditioning
Gained
Poor
Mechanism
Lived
I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.
Emma Stone
Funny
Age
Defense
Defense Mechanism
About
Something
Obnoxious
Never
Since
Performing
Court
Always
Ham
Loud
Five
Times
Just
Mechanism
Medieval
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
Emmanuel Jal
Heart
Protection
Cold
Feel
Anyone
Anything
Really
Mechanism
Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.
Eric Maskin
You
Kick
Kind
Solving
Gives
Puzzle
Like
Devising
Lot
Same
Mechanism
The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
Eric Maskin
Thought
Engineering
Design
Side
Economic
Economic Theory
Theory
Mechanism
Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.
Eric Maskin
Must
Outcomes
More
Indirectly
Generally
Generate
Advance
Simply
Particular
Know
Executed
Because
Optimal
Than
Fiat
Proceed
Information
Which
Mechanism
Mechanisms
Prescribing
Designed
Designers
Needed
The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring data. Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin
Internet
Valuable
Will
Value
Long
Ownership
Data
Remain
Most
Continue
Efficient
Same
Transferring
Mechanism
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
Experience
Strong
Mind
Made
Mistakes
Whatever
Side
Back
Would
Strong Mind
About
Mental
Could
Developed
Football
Put
Bounce
Football Team
Maintain
Talk
Call
Off
Pitch
Form
Happening
Mean
Straight
Team
Mechanism
Resilience
I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
Gary Oldman
Today
You
Too Much
Too
Back
Drank
Would
Would-Be
Drink
Could
Like
Excuse
Look
Terrible
Call
Another
Person
Just
Much
Mechanism
Thing
Coping
Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.
George Soros
Problems
Care
Negative
Believe
State
Market
Recognize
Take
Generally
Take Care
Leads
Economy
Inefficient
Always
Role
Them
Mechanism
Connotations
Fundamentalists
Disruptive
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