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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.


Evan Davis


#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.


Emile Durkheim


#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.


William Blum


#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.


Frantz Fanon


#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.


Karl Von Clausewitz


#different #different means #independent #means #phenomenon

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.


Shirley Hazzard


#civilization #fear #great #may #out

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.


Avery Brundage


#like #music #phenomenon #science

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.


Wilkie Collins


#enormous #fools #i #important #maintained

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.


John Doerr


#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.


Leon Foucault


#calmly #develops #down #either #feels






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