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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. — Plato

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter — Fran Lebowitz

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. — Laura Mullen

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. — M.H. Abrams

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. — Susan Sontag

We have only two modes - complacency and panic. — James R. Schlesinger

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. — Neal Shusterman

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results. — David Grubbs

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. — David Byrne

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation? — Sylvia Day

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. — Edward Coke

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. — Max Weber

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking. — David Rock

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. — Sigmund Freud

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul De Man

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. — Jake Barton

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One — Carol Anshaw

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rituals help us change modes. — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. — Tobias Smollett

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. — Billy Graham

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. — Robert Hughes

When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought. — R.K. Narayan

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. — James G. Frazer

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. — George Steiner

I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. — Matt Mullenweg

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words. — Homer

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live. — Clarence John Laughlin

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought. — Denis Leary

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. — Alexander Pope

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. — Jimmy Wales

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development. — Will Self

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear. — Iris Murdoch

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him. — Jacob Epstein

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. — Bertolt Brecht

Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape. — Adam Rapp

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody. — Joaquin Castro

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. — Frances E. Willard

I love reform better than its modes. — Henry David Thoreau

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. — Henry David Thoreau

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination. — Samuel Johnson

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein

When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight - — Lex Martin

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. — Ira Sachs

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within. — Mahatma Gandhi

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. — Samuel Johnson

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

Vehicles are one of the best modes of transportation. Relationships are one of the best vehicles of transformation. — Kate McGahan

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. — William S. Burroughs

Evaluations, in essence, are ... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate. — Gilles Deleuze

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking. — Rene Descartes

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted. — Samuel Johnson

To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness. — Robert Hobson

A consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself. — Kurt Godel

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite. — Mahavira

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. — Albert Einstein

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. — Baruch Spinoza

One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly. — Jane Austen

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. — Alfred North Whitehead

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity. — Ilona Andrews

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth. — Niccolo Machiavelli

He lived in two modes, the apparent and the veiled, and in two realms, the opera and the sewer, and he shuttled between them like a genie. — Walter Kirn