{"quotes":[{"text":"We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.","author":"Pierre-Simon Laplace","tags":["analysis","astronomy","certainty","comprehension","data","determinism","eyes","formula","free-will","human-mind","intelligence","lack-of-free-will","mind","motion","naturalism","nature","omniscience","past","perfection","physics","present","science","space","time","universe"],"id":9799,"author_id":"Pierre-Simon+Laplace"},{"text":"Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as 'name-calling', employing 'glittering generalities', 'plain folks' identifications, 'card stacking', 'bandwagon' devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many religious and political speeches, even in academic lectures, and this approach to propaganda analysis led to a kind of witch-hunt for propagandists.","author":"Klaus H. Krippendorff","tags":["analysis","communication","propaganda"],"id":14546,"author_id":"Klaus+H.+Krippendorff"},{"text":"The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["analysis","introspection","memories"],"id":19411,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.","author":"Antonella Gambotto-Burke","tags":["accountability","action","analysis","blame","cause","counter-blame","excuses","families","reaction","secret-elisions","self-execution","suicide","symptom"],"id":24976,"author_id":"Antonella+Gambotto-Burke"},{"text":"Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["analysis","will","records "],"id":27192,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"Nothing can be perfect... Even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfect and 100% Accurate...","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["analysis","nothing","perfect"],"id":33033,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing exclamation points at the end of otherwise unremarkable sentences. Sort of like this! This is done to suggest an ironic detachment from the writing of an expository sentence! It's supposed to signify that the writer is self-aware! And this is idiotic. It's the saddest kind of failure. F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused. All those extraneous exclamation points are like little splatters of canned laughter: They represent the 'form of funny,' which is more easily understood (and more easily constructed) than authentic funniness. ","author":"Chuck Klosterman","tags":["analysis","blogging","culture","humor"],"id":36680,"author_id":"Chuck+Klosterman"},{"text":"And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["abyss","analysis","character","darkness","insight","intuition","psyche","psychological-insight","secrets","soul"],"id":55625,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["analysis","funny","thought","wit"],"id":58403,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.","author":"Karen Horney","tags":["way","analysis","still "],"id":93162,"author_id":"Karen+Horney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}