#phenomenon

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

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#blair #cultural #far #film #i

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

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#crashes #down #dying #every #exponentially

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. ↗

— William Shatner

#became #could #imagine #imagined #impossible

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#corruption #eliminate #exist #foundations #motivations

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