#modification

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ask #asking #austria #austrian #been

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#camera #classical #i #modification #oil

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#genetic #i #making #mean #modification

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#because #changes #economical #get #i

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. ↗

— James Mark Baldwin

#machinery #modification #own #provides

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under the rubric of ‘accumulation by dispossession’. By this I mean the continuation and proliferation of accumulation practices which Marx had treated of as ‘primitive’ or ‘original’ during the rise of capitalism. These include the commodification and privatization of land and the forceful expulsion of peasant populations (compare the cases, described above, of Mexico and of China, where 70 million peasants are thought to have been displaced in recent times); conversion of various forms of property rights (common, collective, state, etc.) into exclusive private property rights (most spectacularly represented by China); suppression of rights to the commons; commodification of labour power and the suppression of alternative (indigenous) forms of production and consumption; colonial, neocolonial, and imperial processes of appropriation of assets (including natural resources); monetization of exchange and taxation, particularly of land; the slave trade (which continues particularly in the sex industry); and usury, the national debt and, most devastating of all, the use of the credit system as a radical means of accumulation by dispossession. ↗

— David Harvey

#capitalism #commodification #harvey #neoliberalism #privatization

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #encourages #extend #further #go

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#become #been #correct #day #decree