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“Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.”

Needs Used Existence Theory Politician Fit Circumstances Office Concerned Officials Assured Maintenance Public Office Happy Family Public Officials

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.”

“I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.”

Used Boys Groups Circumstances Authority Smart Expenses Being Smart Subversive Smart And Funny

Author:Eric Idle

“Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.”

Men Should Remember Used Certain Courses Process Difficult Subjects Circumstances Corruption Instance Compromise Officials Reaching Agreement No Compromise

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.”

People Way Said Real Used Seeing Example Circumstances Doctors Baseball Bravery Moved Patient Remarkable Starks

Author:Bob Costas

“If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.”

Ifs Writing Used Humanity Sun Fate Car Circumstances Inevitable Los Angeles Parallels Sun Set Used Car Inevitable Fate

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.”

Age Wanted Used Voice Circumstances Late Singing Seven Singers Unusual Pianist

Author:Dolora Zajick

“When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.”

Thinking Play Bigs Used Break Records Century Circumstances Tests Cricket

Author:Kapil Dev

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

Source: West with the Night

“Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”

Life May Used Color Circumstances Skins Transparent Crystals Vary Right Words

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.”

People Children Used Circumstances Very Good Call Me Prodigies

Author:Michala Petri

“The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).”

Ifs Want Two Spiritual Used Accepting Poverty Materials Circumstances Opposites Financial Refuse Riches Estates Two Roads

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of the problems, the risks posed by nuclear weapons, and in view of the lack of certainty of the law in all circumstances, the best course is fulfilling the obligation of good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament contained in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.”

“Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.”

World Wells Country Young Used Spirit Parent Can Do Poor Circumstances Blessed Despite Used To Be Fortunate Korea Poorest Being Blessed

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”