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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. Swami Vivekananda

Cause Will Free Something Bound Effect Behind Which Phenomenon

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe

Life Myself Loneliness Rare Men My Life Inevitable Few Conviction Other Solitary Rests Fact Existence Curious Human Being Central Human Existence Far Whole Belief Now Phenomenon Peculiar

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm

Hate Envy Feeling Virtue Guise Out Destructive Moral Indignation Contains Perhaps Permits Which Much Acted Phenomenon

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. Vladimir Putin

Achievement People World Political Leader Nation Indeed System Tribute Economic Colony Could Economic System Talent Prosperous Most Years Historical Optimal American Move American People Phenomenon

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. Theodore Isaac Rubin

Angry Tired Lonely Feeling Birth Way Respond Hungry Some Feel Human Loving Capacity Us Basic Universal Phenomenon

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. Martha Graham

Nature Human Being Behavior Flower Tree Imitated Everyday Wave Dancer Ourselves Must See Miracle Something Another Audience Exotic Did Human Being Want Planet Body Actions Creatures Phenomenon

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you. Christopher McCandless

Relationship You Value Situation Relates Circumstance True True Meaning How Personal Personal Relationship Meaning Means Resides Phenomenon

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul

Technology Become Defining Total Civilization Longer New Force Imposed Efficiency Option Modern Human Human Activity Order Modern Technology Which Social Social Order Activity Necessity Phenomenon

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply. Sam Harris

World Random Economics Others Impact About Morality Factors Clearly Genetics Known Well-Being Scientific How Questions Truths Human Depends Wherever Many Flourish Apply Sociology Phenomenon

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz

Politics War Independent Continuation Different Means Phenomenon

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. Edgar Mitchell

Enough Visited Fact Real Been Privileged Happen Planet Phenomenon

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one. Henry Kissinger

Values Other Significant Attacks Part Academic Reaction Trump Intellectual America Middle Communities Reasons Large Large Part Phenomenon

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous. Akira Suzuki

Valuable Research Believe Finding Crops Faculty Concept Sought Were Up Often Being Researchers Serendipity Agreeable Things Phenomenon

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. Andy Samberg

Strange People Pretending Other Phenomenon

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.' Daniel Dennett

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. Eben Alexander

Believe Did Experiences Phenomenon

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. Eduard Shevardnadze

Corruption Own Thoroughly Allow Study Motivations Exist Foundations Eliminate Phenomenon

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt

Day Political Defiance Secular World-Wide One Day Religious Outstanding Well Decade Authority May Established Social Event Last Last Decade Phenomenon

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior. Luanne Rice

Darkness Behavior Fly Moon First Stars Those Worst Hides About Something Kisses Layers Enchanted Celestial Shooting Owls Heavenly Human Heavenly Bodies Human Behavior Romantic Happen Little Meaning Bodies Night Phenomenon

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one? Margaret Atwood

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. Murray Gell-Mann

Physics Word Sense Changes Chaos Indefinitely System Outcome Rather Writers Particular Namely Course Nonlinear Condition Lot Often Tiny Sensitive Means Used Initial Phenomenon Vague

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