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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

- Martin Heidegger

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There`s going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

- Kenneth Smith

It`s really important to realize that evolution doesn`t `take` us, or any organism, anywhere. Evolution is the process of preserving some changes because they are better suited to a changing environment. It usually ends with extinction, in fact.

- James Foster

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

- Edward Hall

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

- Jacques Lacan

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

- Adrian Edmonson

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

- AJ Nicholson

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

- Alan Blackledge

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

- Alan Justad

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

- Alan Saporta

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

- Alex Attwood

When you introduce a genetically modified organism into the environment, it`s not like introducing a chemical product, or even a nuclear product.

- Ali Rahnema

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

- Ali Rahnema

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

- Alton Greene

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

- Ana Andrade

Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.

- Andris Biedrins

As kind of a benchmark, let's say this can be as productive as South Bay, which is a beautiful body of water, ... The bottom is littered in sea grass beds, there are oyster beds, and there are oyster reefs. It has just about every type of organism we have here in the Texas coast. We hope this will eventually be a similar system. The historical accounts that we have indicate it was a system very similar to South Bay with sea grasses and plenty of shrimp and fish.

- Anthony Pollina

This may well be another consequence of our use of antibiotics. It`s another example of an organism that all of a sudden has gotten a lot meaner and nastier.

- Art Godi
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

- Colin Powell

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

- Oscar Wilde

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

- A. R. Orage