Collectively Called Quotes

#1. Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.

Richard Askey

#2. What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

Erik Naggum

#3. Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

Sam Kean

#4. When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Deepak Chopra

#5. I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

Steven Bauer

#6. When I was a kid I remember thinking, if I had a girl, I would treat her really well. Little did I know, they don't always like that.

Dov Davidoff

#7. But you'll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

Lisa Daily

#8. As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling.

Ilona Andrews

#9. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.

You are deciding your life right now.

Meg Ray

#10. As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.

John Cole

#11. A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Theodor W. Adorno

#14. Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Warren Farrell

#15. Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.

Spider Robinson

#16. Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

Clayton Christensen

#17. The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#18. Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Desmond Tutu

#19. The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in - though he had much liking for his fellow men - and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromises with the truth.

Albert Camus

#20. Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Booth

#21. Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

Joe Fafard