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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny
Revolution
Destructive
Something
Only
Cruel
Uncontrollable
Uncontrolled
Knew
Namely
Blind
Operate
Forces
Confirmed
Which
Grandiose
Theory
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein
Equal
Greatest
Always
Mathematicians
Newton
Measure
Theory
United
Applications
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
Finn Jones
War
Needs
You
Game
Destruction
Will
Fire
Think
Chaos
Complete
Those
Destroy
Factions
Had
Between
Know
Message
Go
Huge
End
Going
Happen
While
Ice
Themselves
Game Of Thrones
Theory
Two
The whole social media thing is ridiculous. Everybody gets to say what they want all the time. That's fine in theory, but it's not civilised. Imagine going into a bar, and everybody in that bar is talking like people do online. They'd just get their teeth punched in.
Floor Jansen
Time
People
Social Media
Everybody
Teeth
Punched
Say
Fine
Online
Civilised
Like
Talking
Get
Gets
Going
Just
Want
Bar
Social
Theory
Whole
Ridiculous
Media
Thing
Imagine
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis
Change
Later
Way
Kinds
Small
Come
Manage
Moves
Theory
Many
Bring
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Francis Parker Yockey
Politics
Politician
Aim
Adrift
True
Boundary
His
Intellectual
Theory
Who
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Francis Parker Yockey
History
Political
Possible
Find
Seeks
Limits
Politically
Theory
The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Important
Believe
Immunity
Touchstone
Only
Both
Remain
Most
Likely
Nor
Historical
Convenience
The Most Important
Experimental
Manifestation
Production
Theory
Reasons
Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
Frank Tipler
Example
Whatever
Astrology
Claim
Melt
Perfect
Perfect Example
Like
Global
Global Warming
Expand
Happens
Whether
Ice
Warming
Theory
Caps
The Omega Point Theory can be a solid foundation of support for all of the great human religions.
Frank Tipler
Great
Solid
Solid Foundation
Religions
Point
Support
Human
Theory
Foundation
The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
Garrett Camp
People
Made
Three
Every
Startups
Slower
Something
More
More People
Look
Involved
Motivated
Go
Get
Gets
Bigger
Decisions
Theory
Whole
Company
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
Characteristics
Evolution
Mental
Absent
Proposition
Theory
Wholly
Humans
Inconsistent
My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.
Geoff Dyer
Music
Me
Seriously
Reading
Books
Musical
Way
Minor
About
Compromised
Major
Understand
Any
Meaningless
Theory
Serious
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West
Science
Physics
Paradigm
Data
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Prediction
Theory
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.
George C. Wolfe
You
Writing
Free
Everybody
Guise
Charge
Directing
Like
Materials
Really
Acting
Theory
Actor
Serving
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
George Gaylord Simpson
Confused
Become
Distinction
Evolution
Must
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Fact
Opinion
How
Occurred
Theory
Popular
Popular Opinion
Stressed
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
George Oppen
People
Old
Situation
Carefully
Stayed
Seemed
Argue
Pointless
New
Masses
Wrote
Left
Realism
Etc
Theory
Who
Socialist
Away
I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.
George P. Bush
Speak
Will
Subscribe
Once
Never
Fellow
Reagan
Still
Republican
Ronald Reagan
Theory
Ill
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
Me
You
Yourself
Care
Job
Caring
Way
Seeing
About
More
More Or Less
Writer
Take
Main
Take Care
She
Make
Reader
Just
Happen
Story
Anyway
Them
Themselves
Meanings
Dedicate
Less
Theory
Such A Way
Right
Things
Things Happen
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
George Will
Politics
Government
Behavior
Analysis
Obama
Components
Seems
Economic
How
Behave
Unfamiliar
Influence
Interest
Public
Choice
Incentives
Theory
Groups
Utterly
Applying
Startled
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
Georges Cuvier
History
Respect
Will
Animals
First
Earth
Object
Particular
Importance
Linked
The History Of
Land
Show
Theory
Fossil
Connections
Why
Bones
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
Gerald Clarke
Could
Non-Fiction
His
Artful
Fiction
Theory
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
Gerard Debreu
Berkeley
Economic
Main
Became
Spaces
Agents
Interests
Measure
Theory
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
Gerrit Smith
Our
Concern
However
Any
Theory
Slavery
I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.
Gerry Anderson
Travel
Space
Alive
Dream
Able
Through
Exciting
Idea
Always
Been
Rockets
Very
Just
Being
Space Exploration
Interested
Younger
Much
Exploration
Theory
Found
The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'
Glenn Greenwald
War
Big
Unlimited
Battlefield
Administration
Embraced
Entire
Area
Instead
Primary
Longer
Policies
Globe
Terror
Geographical
Confined
Justify
Bush
Bush Administration
Theory
Now
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