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Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.
— Rosalind Kaplan
The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Integration is the key mechanism beneath both the absence of illness and the presence of well-being.
— Anonymous
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
— David Byrne
Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism
— David Crystal
The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
— Julian Barnes
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald A. Fisher
Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.
— Angelina Assanti
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
— Chuck Palahniuk
For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.
— Chuck Palahniuk
We don't carry in subtraction, however; we borrow, and that involves an intrinsically different mechanism - a messy back-and-forth kind of thing.
— Charles Petzold
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
— Mark Batterson
The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
— Julian Assange
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.
— Peter Shumlin
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
— Margaret Bechard
It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.
— Charlotte Gerson
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
— Phil McGraw
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
— John Steinbeck
for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. A
— Dinesh D'Souza
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.
— Brian Josephson
It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people.
— Mira Grant
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Gut feelings help us filter the world, and what is taste, really, but a kind of cognitive mechanism for managing sensory overload? But
— Tom Vanderbilt
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
— Randall Robinson
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism ... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
— Isaac Asimov
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
— George Washington
I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap.
— Dean Koontz
An elevator. The doors of the elevator were gone, as were the cab and the lift mechanism, sold for reuse or for scrap.
— Dean Koontz
Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.
— Gunther Hauk
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
— Anatoly Chubais
Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.
— Conrad Wolfram
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
— Frank M. Ochberg
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
— John Searle
Love is the foundation, the mechanism and the conductor of life.
— Daniel Marques
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.
— Jack Canfield
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
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
— Justin Trudeau
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
— D.H. Lawrence
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
— James R Newman
Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.
— L. Ron Hubbard
During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
— Maureen Corrigan
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts
— Jose Rodrigues Migueis
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
— Diane Ackerman
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
— Fernando J. Corbato
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.
— Naomi Watts
Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
— Abhijit Naskar
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
— Allison Mackie
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
— Gregory S. Paul
The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.
— Kiran Dintyala
Mechanism! Everywhere mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. — John Galsworthy
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
— Colson Whitehead
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.
— Howard Schultz
The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.
— Fareed Zakaria
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
— Kenneth L. Pike
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
— Julian Assange
It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.
— Jaggi Vasudev
For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.
— Steve Maraboli
When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.
— Betsy Schow
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In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
— Andrew Carnegie
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
— Bill Bryson
Radical feminists didn't need FBI infiltration - the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way.
— Susie Bright
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
— Deepak Chopra
Time was the lubricant that allowed the mechanism of the universe to function smoothly.
— Dean Koontz
fear is a trigger mechanism.Let it trigger faith — Ikechukwu Joseph
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
— Robert Redford
Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.
— James Elkins
The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.
— John De Ruiter
