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“So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.”

Long Use Certain Universe Asks Language Theory Structure Vocabulary Implied

Author:Michael Polanyi

“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”

Believe Long Facts Government Running Moving Law Certain Decision Party Democracy Taken Advantage India Committed Chinese Long Runs Rule Of Law

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.”

People Long Certain Values Known Share Long Time Peter Beard Affinity

Author:Terry Southern

“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”

Ifs Way Love May Long Pain Joy Certain Choices Difficult Challenges Leadership Path Inspire Best Way Midst Companion Discovering

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.”

People Needs Long Certain Laughing Creative Roots Originals Artistic Funniness

Author:Jason Gann

“Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.”

World Persons Long Stills Important Certain Friendship Gone Mark

Author:Art Buchwald

“The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.”

Way May Long Doe Facts Life Is Certain Evil Greater Danger Errors Expected Improvement Death Penalty

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.”

Long War Certain Causes Born Produce Battle Unique Hatred Ultimate Forgotten Ancient Conviction Legacy Long Ago Frontiers Fanaticism Ultimate Truth

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.”

“Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.”

Thinking Needs Years Mean Long Government Certain Careers Citizens Politician Office Now And Then Skepticism Associates Sixteen Public Office

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.”

Ifs Mean Long Certain Song Enjoy Pieces Lists Titles Helpful Rehearsal One Piece Drones Over The Top Opulence Song Titles

Author:David First

“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Happens Certain Term Loses Concern Long Term

Author:Eric Horvitz

“Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.”

“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.”

People Long Has Beens Play Whole Certain Roles Changed Approach Backgrounds Fast Food

Author:Tom Waits

“There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.”

Persons Long Remember Certain Long Time Sticks Idols Really Long

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”

Long Stories Certain Wish Lips Ministers Unlikely Shameful

Book:We Never Talk about My Brother

Source: We Never Talk about My Brother

“Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.”

Littles Long Done Death Certain Born Flow Tasks Empty Long Ago

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?”

Want Feels Kind Long Has Beens Certain Father Stuff Interesting Childhood Return Drama Elements Long Time Get Away Exhausted Long Time Ago Family Drama

Author:Sam Shepard

“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Believe Kind Long Reason Enough Law Certain I Believe Causes Sacred Familiar Frank Chords Clash Offence Clamour Triads

Author:Alban Berg

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.”

Knows Way Needs Looks Long Enough Certain Games Winning Team Football Football Game

Author:Tony Romo

“I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.”

Ifs Mind Long Happens Certain Meetings Finals Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Luis A. Ferre

“If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.”

Ifs Thinking Long Hard Enough Certain Belief Fixed Consistent Finding Yourself

Author:Brian Tracy

“Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.”

Ifs Giving Long Certain Belief Church Fire Essentials Salvation Chains Orthodox Heresy Whips Orthodox Church Whips And Chains

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.”

Wells Long Certain Politics Principles Economy Rights Economic Capitalism Function Bases Property Remembered Liberalism Contracts Sane Recalls Exaggeration Misuse Economic Freedom

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.”

Long Success Certain Careers Rich Buddhism Highest Long Time Expensive Neighborhood Domain Long Time Ago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.”

Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Ends Certain Process Cutting Particular Goes On Spots

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.”

World Way Want Long Different Stories Reality Certain Historical Committed Like Me Filmmaker

Author:Haile Gerima

“Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how long it's gonna take something to grow, you never know if you're gonna hit in a certain market.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mind Heart Long Country Certain Grows Know How Heart And Mind

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Wells Kind Long Certain Can Do Mines Please Activity Should Have Function Sexuality Partners Damn Legality Bodily Functions

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.”

Long Enough Certain Realizing Comedian Genes Hyper

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.”

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Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.”

People Knows Long Ends Character Stories Shows Lasts Film Certain Term Know How Middle Tvs Amount Developing Excitement Long Term Arches

Author:DJ Qualls

“There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.”

People Should Kind Long Character Jobs Certain Numbers Strange Demand Selfishness Tolerate Immersing Yourself

Author:Dominic Cooper

“The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Certain Song Liberty Creative Long Time Sacred Lists

Author:Keith Urban

“Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.”

Long Christian America Certain Passion Christ Civilization Messages Extraordinary Seeds Islamic Passion Of The Christ

Author:Michael Moriarty

“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.”

Long America Remember Certain Turns Events Kings Proportion Tragic Luther Bobby Kennedy

Author:Richard Schiff

“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Long Happens Certain Water Chance White Numbers Eating Tragedy Tables Faults Dinner Accidents Coffee Percentages Chances Are Lurking Jelly Dinner Table Snowy

Book:Etiquette Every Child Should Know

Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know