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“My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.”

War Facts Culture Fiction Novel Currents Libertarian Rebellion Toms Uncles Cabins Uncle Tom

Author:L. Neil Smith

“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.”

Real Possibility Skills Accounts Pressure Management Crisis Currents Oil Uncertainty Tested Deficit Crisis Management Management Skills

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

Way Self Helping Order Consciousness Special Higher Illusion Garden Currents Mammals Slugs Slime

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories

“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.”

“Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.”

Ifs Happens Answers Situation Clear Security Bases Currents Iran Not Afraid Diplomacy Council Referring Security Council Current Situation

Author:Hamid-Reza Assefi

“It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.”

Needs Feels Years Has Beens War States Action Three Speak Impossible Affair Currents Productions Artistic Poetic Three Years Impossibility Factual Year One

Author:Casey Spooner

“I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.”

Firsts Meetings Currents Unhappy Chosen Unhappiness Composition Participation Council

Author:Bernard Kouchner

“Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!”

Dark Sweet Rivers Towns Green Ancient Wave Currents Towers Sunny Dimples

Author:Horace Binney Wallace

“My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.”

Way Currents Landscape

Author:Ted Godwin

“As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Two Ends Lasts Millions Century Currents Determined Global Warming Trends Hotter

Book:Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

Source: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

People Looks Has Beens Facts Reality Past Cases Events Currents Obvious Perceive Bias Predictable Foresight Hindsight

Book:Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

Source: Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

“It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.”

Shows Environment Economic Currents Budgets Recessions

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.”

Humans Order Fall Challenges Human Beings Economy Capitalism Injustice Currents Genuine Factors Rejects Willingness Something Better Irrationality

Author:Jim Stanford

“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.”

World Firsts Ideas War Political Century Revolution Currents Civil War Sovereignty Canon English Speaking

Author:Bernard Bailyn

“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”

People Ifs World Needs Children Mother Dying Baby Currents Access Vulnerable Breasts Belly Limbs Hollow Horns Famine Swollen Matchsticks Horn Of Africa

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.”

Way Mean Understanding Challenges Seeing Awareness Events Theory Limits Commitment Roots Structure Currents Insight Willingness Deceiving Relentless Current Events

Author:Peter Senge

“When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.”

Ifs May Stories Courses Belief Fiction Gone Currents Ran Relax Smooth Circuits Counterfeit

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years. I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.”

Thinking Years Country Majority Currents France Mail Projection Spineless

Author:Pat Condell

“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”

Reality Care Lying Justice Four Duty Cold Sitting Currents Units Seventies Ninety Resumes Intensive Care Unit

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.”

World Fighting Games Player Mass Overcoming Currents Crowds Online Handful Casual Console Supremacy Macho Testosterone

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.”

Ifs May Dies Powerful Millions Our Lives Shadow Clouds Currents Nuclear Bombs Seventies Opposing Arsenal Mushrooms

Author:Johann Hari

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Should Doe Use Language Term Currents Chinese Greek Territory Scholar Venture Propositions Peril Alphabet Uncharted Treading Uncharted Territory Chinese Language

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, we need to give ourselves, our business, our interests, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, efficient, fruitful.”

Needs Giving Hands Spirit Interest Fashion Divine Affection Currents Our Family Efficient Divine Will

Book:Sermons for the People

Source: Sermons for the People

“Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.”

Humans Missing Currents Links Genes Socialist Monkeys Apes

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.”

“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.”

Moving Situation Television Performances Currents Theatre Irony Discussion Discourse Examination Replicate Live Performance Current Situation Replication Live Theatre

Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

“The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.”

Way Situation Currents Making Peace Current Situation

Book:The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

Source: The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

“Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.”

Should Trying Government Pay Serious Higher Currents Opposition Healthcare Cuban

Author:Saul Landau

“Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.”

Two Book Enjoy Poet Drug Medicine Addiction Currents Brilliant Versions Nonsense Orthodox Observers Drug Addiction Drug Addict Getting High Theodore Romantic Poet

Author:Kenneth Minogue

“My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.”

Looks Littles Walks Fronts Models Assuming Currents Wheels Gas Saudis Embedded Louisiana Squad Driveway Suvs Honda

Author:David Brooks

“Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?”

Culture Taken Ocean Currents

Author:Ted Lowe

“Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.”

Mark Currents Documents Ibm

Author:Darl McBride

“Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.”

Values Process Share Keys Discipline Elements Investing Currents Significant Buying Realised Bargains Discounts

Author:Seth Klarman

“We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.”

Able Past Opportunity Grateful Currents Graduates So Grateful

Author:David Branch

“No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.”

Feels Matter Spirit Successful Conditions Grew Grew Up Training No Matter What Currents Resilience Chosen Being Successful Endeavor Fortitude Hardiness Where You Grew Up

Author:Jack Ma

“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more”

May Young Water Seeing Blood Sea Fashion Rivers Fishes Currents Boat Visible Lakes Fishing Affected Intoxicated Swirls

Book:The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

Source: The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”

Fall Water Sea Sky Rivers Sight Depth Fishes Currents Boat Instant Streams Visible Lakes Fishing Silver Flash Lightning Rainbow Jewels Gleam Dainty

Author:John Buchan

“To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.”

Mistake Teacher Buddhism Gains Currents Mindset Unhappiness Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“On current form, both teams will probably lose.”

Form Loses Team Football Currents Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Aidy Boothroyd

“These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.”

Knows Enough Bigs Sports Company Generations Thirds Size Currents Spectrum

Author:Steve Largent

“She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.”

Ifs Want States Views Currents Point Of View Cherish Exile Cuba

Author:Andy Garcia

“Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Film Certain Emotion Talking Policy Regret Aspect Climate Currents Confused Foreign Policy Don't Regret American Film

Author:Neil Jordan

“Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.”

Men Wisdom Today Form Politics Church Religious Economy Influence Duty Eternal Moved Salvation Currents Various Socialism Permanent Motive Liberalism Marxist Jeopardize

Author:Pope Pius XI

“Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.”

Self Moments Hate Causes Enjoy Buddhism Enlightenment Currents Buddhist Etiquette Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally”

People Dangerous Buddhism Involved Sick Currents Rage Entity Get Involved Channeling Pastime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

Men Made Written Atheism Changed Circumstances Civilization Fame Currents Positive Atheism Boundaries Heroines

Author:H. G. Wells

“How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.”

“We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.”

Knows Want Looks Moments Might Happens Tables Scripts Currents Episodes

Author:John Barrowman

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