#directly

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers. ↗

— Gil Kane

#agencies #business #coming #directly #enough

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. ↗

— Leon Kass

#crude #directly #follows #genetics #goes

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#capital #capital gains #decisions #difficulty #directly

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child. ↗

— Jim Knight

#about #access #being #child #comfortable

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#believe #directly #interpret #irrational #isolated

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#affecting #against #birth #birth control #carries

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#annual #appropriation #broadcasting #corporation #directly

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#directly #hierarchy #intervention #much #need

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#age #completed #contemporaries #directly #first