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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
Tom G. Palmer
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.
Ella Maillart
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
Jay Inslee
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
Nils-Axel Morner
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz
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Raymond Chandler 
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The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.
Ilya Prigogine 
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
David R. Brower
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Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Rudolf Arnheim
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I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
Anthony Braxton
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I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
Peter Jennings
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The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
Douglas Feith
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.
Tim Bishop
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Robert Redford
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