Sociocultural Forces Quotes & Sayings

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. — Jesse Ventura

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on. — Henry Ward Beecher

Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be. — Elizabeth Bowen

All from 9 and last from 10' and gives a very simple and powerful technique to achieve the same result. — Atul Gupta

CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all. — Darren Aronofsky

Dynamic equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory, developed by Eugene A. Nida, which has been widely adopted by the United Bible Societies...Purporting to be an academically linguistic concept, it is in fact a sociocultural concept of communication. Its definition is essentially behavourist: determined by external forces, such as society--with strong pragmatist overtones--focusing on the reader rather than the writer. [M]ost twentieth-century American philosophical endeavours are predominantly pragmatist, dwelling in the shadows cast by William James and John Dewey. — J. Cammenga

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal. — Henry Ward Beecher

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney. — Andy Borowitz

This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this. — Sarah Palin