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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.
In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.
It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.
Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.
I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.
Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
As we become multi sensory,
we move beyond the limitations of the five senses
and we now are evolving to a different mechanism
in the exploration of physical reality.
I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
