Deflection Quotes

• On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

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  Eric Cantona

  Wicked   Ordinary   Lasts  

  2564

• And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.

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  George Chapman

  Soul   Tragedy   Fiction  

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.178

  1816

• Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

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  Kenneth Burke

  Reflection   Reality   Men  

  Kenneth Burke, Joseph R. Gusfield (1989). “On Symbols and Society”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

  3469

• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

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  Erwin Chargaff

  Gold Teeth   Enzymes   Crafts  

  1383

• Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

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  Sigmund Freud

  Pain   Powerful   Disappointment  

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

  5061

• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

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  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance   Fire   Feelings  

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

  2374

• I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

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  Gale Harold

  Character   Gay   Men  

  "Queer as Folk‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

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  Kenneth Burke

  Reflection   Reality   Given  

  Kenneth Burke (1966). “Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.

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  Rusty Schweickart

  Technology   People   Needs  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  2158

• You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.

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  Dalia Mogahed

  Ostriches   Issues   People  

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  1060

• I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.

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  John C. Meyer

  Fire   Discipline   Yards  

  2046

• I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.

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  Robert Hanbury Brown

  Distance   Tired   Science  

  2692

• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

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  Evelyn Underhill

  Art   Prayer   Fixing  

  3799