#derive

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. ↗

— Kathleen Kenyon

#behind #clear #contents #derived #earlier

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#bureaucracy #bureaucrats #clients #derive #inherently

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#coolest #derived #different #how #i

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#data #derive #determines #equation #existing

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one. ↗

— David Selby

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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. ↗

— William Shatner

#deal #derive #dogs #great #great deal

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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