Specificity Theory Quotes & Sayings

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. — Henry Norris Russell

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere. — Amy Schumer

To forgive or not to forgive ... are those my only choices? — Natsuki Takaya

Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders. — Matthew Hughes

This attribute of equality within the market system is terribly important; Marx understands it as being fundamental to how capitalism theoretically works. Aristotle, too, understood the need for commensurability and equality in exchange relations, but he couldn't figure out what lay behind it. Why not? Marx's answer is that "Greek society was founded on the labour of slaves, hence had as its natural basis the inequality of men and of their labour-powers" (152). In a slave-holding society there can be no value theory of the sort that we are going to find under capitalism. Again, note the historical specificity of the value theory to capitalism. — David Harvey

I think we have some special talents. That being said, I think it's dangerous to rely on special talents - it's better to own lots of monopolistic businesses with unregulated prices. But that's not the world today. We have made money exercising our talents and will continue to do so. — Charlie Munger

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist. — Fernando Pessoa

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life. — Hugh Prather

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors. — Lloyd Bridges

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. — T. S. Eliot

Our entire society's based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. Taking it for granted that that's the whole point of life, never to be satisfied. If you're perfectly happy with what you've got - specially if what you've got isn't even all that spectacular - then you're dangerous. You're breaking all the rules, you're undermining the sacred economy, you're challenging every assumption that society's built on. That's why Rafe's dad throws a mickey fit whenever Rafe says he's happy where he is. The way he sees it, we're all subversives. We're traitors. — Tana French

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. — Lawrence J. Peters

Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings. — Mallory Ortberg

I think I'm going to be a stuntwoman on the side. — Silvia Colloca