#phenomenon

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#behaviour #being #believe #fed #genuine

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. ↗

— Josef Albers

#curious #heart #just #optical #painting

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#biology #breakthrough #connected #exaggerates #explore

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#bound #cause #effect #free #phenomenon

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#been #began #caught #dark #dark shadows

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? ↗

— Bette Midler

#come #how #many #natural #phenomenon

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#industry #leader #made #phenomenon #play