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Letter "O" » organism
«Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.»
«Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.»
Author: Edward Hall
| Keywords:
bubble, for short, mobile, organism, organisms, penetrate, periods, territoriality
«Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
die out, doomed, extinction, organism
«If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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addict, addiction, cured, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, haunts, House of the Dead, intangible, intangibles, organism, recasting, smoking, There exists
«Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.»
«All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.»
«In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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church, considered, degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, inevitably, mysteries, organism, organisms, social, The Church
«As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspirations, conception, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, distinguish, historical, imaginary, interests, in private, organism, Parties, party man, private interest, private life, Private Lives, struggles
«Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.»
«If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
fulfill, organism, potentialities, potentiality
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