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“Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.”

Player Balance Mark Tenderness Facility Understatement

Author:Jon Pareles

“I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).”

Use Today Names Starting Officials Feminine Mail Facility Request Confinement Pronouns Starting Today

Author:Chelsea Manning

“Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.”

Knows Talking Proof Facility

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am suspicious of both facility and speed.”

Speed Suspicious Facility Rewriting

Author:Roald Dahl

“Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.”

Interest Travel Dignity Fixed Traveler Facility

Author:George Santayana

“Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!”

Hard Beautiful Sound Voice Nice Player Influence Modern Tradition Jazz Brown Horns Facility Dave Bops

Author:Dan Feiszli

“I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.”

Thinking Book Ideas Stories Holes Setting Settings Desert Texas New Ideas Facility Juvenile Old Ideas Small Ideas

Author:Louis Sachar

“Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.”

Business Company Technology Plans Groups Week Defense Firm Regions Impressive Facility Mississippi Aerospace

Author:Roger Wicker

“The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.”

Should Persons Has Beens Community Chance Education Modern Higher Advantage Denied Adequate Humane Facility Higher Education Time And Money Advanced Education

Book:War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943

Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943

“This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.”

Needs Wells War Used Influence Military Periods Trade Including British Abandon Requirements Civilians Facility Manufacturing Converting

Author:W. Averell Harriman

“THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities”

People Beautiful Young Cities Hell Republican Basketball Court Property Bathroom Toilets Facility Basketball Court

Author:Carl Paladino

“In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.”

“If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.”

Ifs May Philosophy Would Be Term Training Research University Corporate Academic Facility Institute Deceptive Academic Life Technical Training

Author:Terry Eagleton

“If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.”

Ifs Way Might Lost Power Events Europe British Ships Germany Hostile Facility Captured

Author:Wendell Willkie

“Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.”

“It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.”

Men Two Seems Culture Goal Achieve Function Efficient Folds Utility Facility True Education

Book:The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.”

People Ifs Jobs Language Justice Answers Poverty Cutting Cry Abuse Refuse Deeper Frustration Facility Riot Unheard Anger Frustration

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done.”

“While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.”

Reality Care Safe Essentials Percent Abortion Texas Facility County Providers

Author:Wendy Davis

“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.”

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.”

Character Stories Actors Pieces Periods Horror Historic Facility Horror Stories

Author:Robert Englund

“Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.”

Doe Use Used Fields Source Weapons Iraq Chemicals Dictator Saddam Hussein Facility Commanders Rebuilding Chemical Weapons

Author:George W. Bush

“Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.”

Has Beens War Facts Government Justice Cases Progress Crime Promise Concerned Remains Currents Despite Height Aspire Facility Commanders Processing War Crimes Advisors

Author:Lee Zeldin

“To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.”

States Government Animal Limits Plant Size Facility

Author:Aristotle

“It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.”

Believe Children Reason Seems Care Mother I Believe Nations Equal Congress Take Care Disaster Formulas Assistance Facility Equal Pay Day Care

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.”

Ifs Doe Hands Resources Prisoner Territory Facility Captured Detention Pow

Author:John Yoo

“There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.”

Reason Use Pay Education Swimming Pool Facility Swimming Pool

Author:Albert Shanker

“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.”

School Together Technology Investment Construction Facility Modernization Capital Investment Investment In Education Technology In Education

Author:Major Owens

“Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.”

Long Home Used Economy Rich Investment Traditional Ties Temporary Vehicle Long Life Facility Cds Storage Ira

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.”

Two Country Problem Sides Company Borders Both Sides Negotiation Facility Two Sides Two Countries

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.”

“I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.”

Writing Trying Firsts Believe May Made I Can Use Courses I Believe Virtue Fine Paper Pages Machines Shining Awful Faster Perceive Acquire Chairs Working It Print Ink Facility Typewriters

Author:Mark Twain

“Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...”

Wisdom Faults Facility Stinginess

Author:Vincent de Paul

“We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.”

Should Important Information Universal Complexes Technique Extras Fancy Linked Facility Generalities Portability Information Systems

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted).”

“I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.”

Years Littles Kids Stuff Car Stealing Little Kid Facility Stealing Cars

Author:Eazy-E

“I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.”

Humans Might Stuff Loss Decision Keys Losing Independent Decision Making Facility

Author:Dylan Moran

“The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.”

“Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?”

Want Should Wells Age Used Ignorance Perception Old Age Deceived Facility Being Deceived

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.”

Grace Imitation Facility

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.”

Knows Want Writing Mean Matter Use Running Used Talking Five Trouble Week Six Harder Tired Seven Wave Tricks Transition Facility Not Talking Weariness

Author:John Steinbeck

“The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.”

Government Policy Truth Is Leaving California Facility Manufacturing Government Policy Bad Government

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.”

States Use Today Faces Given Pay Situation Essentials Funding Facility Transportation Locality

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.”

Needs Should Believe States I Believe Investment Addresses Revenue Facility Transportation

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.”

Should Events Nuclear Emergencies Facility Leaks

Author:Ken Calvert

“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.”

Space Development Various Focused Facility Transportation Orbit Inexpensive Mit

Author:K. Eric Drexler

“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?”

Problem Language Powerful Wonderful Solutions Programming Bells Facility Programmers Programming Languages Code Quality

Book:A Discipline of Programming

Source: A Discipline of Programming

“Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.”

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