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“...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.”

Humans Made Politics Rights Groups Human Rights Currents Cuba Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Zimbabwe Hungary Netherlands

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body-the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood-the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.”

Way Soul Body Reading Water Teaching Taught Wind Filled Currents Mood Heal Tension Muscles Subtle Making Love Shifting Temperature Mourn Sailor Heed Ripple

Author:Kat Duff

“A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.”

Self Pay Self Love Concern Greed Currents Attractive Reverse Altruism Conform Exploits Narcissistic Lives Of Others Narcissist Adjectives Concern For Others Meanings Of Words

Author:Gore Vidal

“But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.”

Country States Moving United United States Effects Accounts Dollars Currents Finance Decline Currency Other Countries Deficit Borrowing Adverse Adverse Effects

Author:Martin Feldstein

“But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.”

Needs Years May Reason Economy Increase Dollars Currents Primaries Pace Expansion

Author:Martin Feldstein

“In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.”

Men Giving Wells He Man Taste Speech Clothes Dresses Currents Extremes Offense Haste

Book:Tartuffe and Other Plays

Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays

“Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.”

Religion Universe Glasses Currents Boots Rubber Reformers

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”

People War Young Fighting Issues Sky Politician Flow Clouds Currents Seeds Roof Furious Handy Airmen Puncture

Book:The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author

Source: The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author

“I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.”

Currents Opening Reform Discussion Giants Worms Ongoing Patents Copyright Trademarks Cans Of Worms

Author:James Fallows

“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”

Way Needs Choices Differences Fit Currents Similarity

Author:James Fallows

“Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.”

Knows Reality Able Ability Currents God Is Able

Book:God is Able

Source: God is Able

“My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.”

Years I Can Two Running Pain Half Four Changed Years Ago Currents Life Changing Two Years Electric Acid Spine Half A Year Submerged Unrelenting Vat Electric Current Excruciating Pain

Author:Bill Walton

“In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.”

Thinking Real Sometimes Age Lasts Interest Teaching Research Economics Financial Currents Journalism Mathematical Legacy Range Specialization Generalists

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.”

Writing Mind Found Numbers Taken Roots Tests Currents Corners Newspapers Phrases Passages

Book:Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?”

Christianity Events Ancient Currents Current Events Ancient History

Author:Sam Shoemaker

“Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.”

Doe Age Past Form Known Millions Commitment Intelligent Folks Passionate Currents Contrary Golden Cynicism Abstraction Golden Age Continuous Learning

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.”

Ifs Has Beens Literature Currents London Renaissance

Author:John Dos Passos

“I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”

Thinking Doe Facts Social Saws Ego Currents Tendencies Guilty Absurdity Egotism Facts Of Life Militant

Book:On Self and Social Organization

Source: On Self and Social Organization

“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”

States Moments Past Changed Currents Instance

Author:Jean Piaget

“Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.”

Want Mean States President Records Currents Harm Agents Obsessed Fbi Fbi Agents

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.”

Events Lucky Beats Currents Current Events

Author:Rick Mercer

“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.”

Helping Tools Historical Currents Eras Precedent

Author:Douglas Coupland

“We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and wisdom and move forward to create more joy.”

Source: Creating a Life of Joy: A Meditative Guide

“The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.”

Firsts Mean Art Political Interest Painting Circumstances Response Currents Reviews Distraction Vary October

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Always radiate positive currents of... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination.”

Light Attitude Kindness Goodness Determination Currents

Author:Robert Muller

“There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.”

Way Heart May Children Whole Wisdom Eye Masters Source Lovers Sitting Embrace Currents Stranger Spots Staring Grants Elders Up To You Eyes Of A Child

Author:Kent Nerburn

“The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it”

Way Inspirational Humans Seems Race Technology Forgotten Currents Scales Human Race Heroic Rulers Nerd Imperatives Slides New Technology Preoccupation Predicaments

Book:Some Remarks

Source: Some Remarks

“I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous”

Inspirational Dangerous Policy Weapons Currents Nuclear Illegal Nuclear Weapons Unnecessary Immoral

Author:Robert McNamara

“I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness.”

Thinking May Would Be Care Moving Science Literature Records Currents Journalist Instant Branches Treatment Pens Phases Momentary Ephemera

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.”

Trying Mind May Sometimes Voice Currents Frame Of Mind

Author:Todd Rundgren

“There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.”

Self Past Approach Currents Critical Elites Incapable Ruling Assessment

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.”

Years Looks May Stills Bigs Answers Doubt Currents Be Good Settling No Doubt Horizon Bangs Newton Elude Good Questions Elude Us

Author:Daniel Dennett

“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.”

Giving Littles Stills Chance Middle Security Victory Suicide West Currents East Desperate Middle East Brutal Bloody Symbolic Bin Laden Prestige Osama Bin Laden Gaza Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:James Buchan

“The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.”

Heart Political Culture Struggle Feminism Century Late Currents Revolutionary Nationalism Agendas 20th Century

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.”

Men Has Beens War Would Be Sex Views Mistake Situation Missing Males Currents Shooting Sand Bullets Burying Current Situation

Author:Warren Farrell

“There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.”

Needs Willing Politician Currents Visible Need A Change

Author:David Korten

“Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.”

Doe Different Able Political Views Perspective Intellectual Standards Negative Radio Currents Point Of View Newspapers Conventional Provoking Ideological Different Points Of View

Author:Susie Orbach

“You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.”

Ifs Currents Oar

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.”

Needs Kind Sometimes Stuff Parent Teacher Our Lives Influence Currents Mantras

Author:Taylor Dane

“We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.”

Kind Wanted Rooms Events Tvs Mom My Friends Currents My Mom Living Room Current Events

Author:Eliza Dushku

“Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.”

May Important Artist Fans Changed Industry Models Majority Currents Income Traditional Streams Revenue Promotion Touring Music Business Business Models Recorded Music

Author:Irving Azoff

“I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.”

Thinking World Should Writing Real Culture Sports Crime Currents Locals Novelists Real World Deadline Fledglings

Author:C. J. Box

“I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.”

Wells Important Use My Own Information Findings Computer Creating Currents Staying Email Files Website New Music Mp3

Author:Clint Black

“I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.”

Thinking Stuff Currents Electronics

Author:Derek Bailey

“While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.”

States Law Left Levels Judging Wings Definitions Currents Locals Preserves Officials Activist Amendments Left Wing Statutes Constitutional Amendments

Author:John Boehner

“The big fun in Battleship is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to...”

Long Bigs Today Lasts Used Fun Saws Feet Huge Gun Currents Navy Wwii Missouri

Author:Peter Berg

“I have always tried to stay current.”

Currents

Author:Rick Baker

“To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.”

Honest Havens Currents Being Honest Crops

Author:Curtis Armstrong

“Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

Facts Force Nations President Evidence Wings Currents Tendencies Legacy Right Wing Inconvenient Mania Unwelcome President Reagan

Author:Eric Alterman

“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.”

Whole Social Sports Watches Policy Affair Currents Social Policy Current Affairs

Author:Anna Chlumsky

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