- Nov 07, 2020
Derives Quotes
Tracing an idea back to its root.
These derives quotes explore how capitalism's assumptions often outpace even its harshest critics' imagination. Read more in our Character quotes.
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- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
- Helium
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sun derives its energy from fusion reactions in which hydrogen is transformed into helium.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
- Germany
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- Nov 07, 2020
The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
- Governs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020