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“The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.”

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Author:Bruno Dumont

“Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.”

Would Be Three Courses Natural Students Mathematics Cooking Mythology Rhetoric Select Geology Archaeology Natural History Philology Meteorology Prosody

Author:W. H. Auden

“The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin.”

Want Kind President Court Congress Hearing Supreme Senate Committees Supreme Court Select Scrutiny

Author:Montel Williams

“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.”

Character Integrity Promise Candidates Select

Author:Jim DeMint

“There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.”

Needs Believe Art House Quality Studios Stores Crafts Make Sense Ashamed Shops Select Mundane

Author:Laura Owens

“One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful”

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Book:How to overcome Failure and achieve SUCCESS

Source: How to overcome Failure and achieve SUCCESS

“The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.”

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Author:George Preston Marshall

“Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.”

Brands Select Smartphones

Author:Stephen Elop

“You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.”

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Author:Wilferd Peterson

“. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.”

Conditions Meetings Simplest Grammar Select Adequacy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!”

Men Long Running Political Taken Intention Reaching Bags Mates Select Grabbing

Author:Pat Paulsen

“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.”

“It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.”

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Author:Zinedine Zidane

“In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.”

People Self Today House Car Lifestyle Self Worth Wealthy Permit Lacking Impress Select Sense Of Self Monetary Purchasing Residence Monetary System Purchasing Power

Author:Jacque Fresco

“A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.”

Wells Happens Asks Subjects Extraordinary Patient Nonsense Symptoms Select Exaggeration Selected Crocodiles Ailments

Author:Carl Jung

“The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.”

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Book:To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

Source: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

“The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.”

Earth Song Air Mass Blind Captains Deaf Select Sirens Oar

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.”

Said Whole Life Is Habit Commitment Areas Excellence Profound Diets Select Reserved Another Life Indivisible Physique Commitment To Excellence

Author:Robin Sharma

“A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.”

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Book:Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

“To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”

“The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.”

Way Choices Perspective Wake Up Live Your Life Select Choices You Make

Author:Lance Armstrong

“This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.”

Self Able Sick Select

Author:Wayne Dyer

“There will be select instances where the consumer is interested in paying for premium content. I think it will be difficult to get people to pay for something on the Internet that they can find elsewhere on the Internet for free.”

People Thinking Difficult Pay Internet Instance Consumers Elsewhere Select Premium

Author:Dennis Miller

“The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca”

Names Sound Simple Results Baby Letters Decades Combination Therapy Expensive Versus Select Carefree Jake Coolness

Author:Paul Reiser

“I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.”

Thinking Trying Sometimes Weapons Ministers Prime Prime Minister Select Boomerang

Author:John Smith

“I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.”

People Share Grew Grew Up Contact Select Stressed Protestants Fundamentalist

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

Ifs Trying Knowing Focus Seeing Movement Color Shapes Areas Vices Acquire Representation Abstraction Select Vice Versa Knowing Everything Amalgamation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

“To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.”

Choices Numbers Infinite Photograph Redemption Remembered Select

Book:Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin

Source: Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin

“The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.”

Mind Humans Human Beings Ultimate Select Ultimate Freedom

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.”

“The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.”

House Watches Air Possibility Shapes Errors Glasses Developing Fancy Nightmare Select Utopia Distortion Neon Embryos Huxley Chromium

Book:Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

Source: Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

“The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.”

Choices Numbers Infinite Shoes Select Sock Axioms

Author:Bertrand Russell

“When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.”

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Book:Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House

Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House

“Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.”

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Author:John Ashcroft

“The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.”

Firsts May Tasks Dresses Cooks Strongest Select Gardener Ripe Relish

Author:Augustus William Hare

“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.”

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Author:Fred Melamed

“I actually think the debate is a good idea because if internationally somehow we can bring home to Americans that their decision about who they select as their candidate has international implications then by all means we should.”

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Author:Kit Malthouse

“I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I choose the most qualified people. We need to run more women in parties in ridings where they can be elected. That's what I really focused on, so that we have more women to select for cabinet, potentially.”

People Needs Running Party Focused Riding Qualified Select Cabinets

Author:Christy Clark

“So when Community came up and then the movie roles started happening I was very grateful. I am trying to be careful with the movie roles I select because if you pull the trigger too quickly, like choosing a lead role in a crappy movie then you will be put in movie jail and you will never be heard from again. If it's not a big hit you'll be forgotten pretty fast.”

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Author:Joel McHale

“I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education curriculum, our experience was that Harvard's all about specialization, that's not just true of the professori, it's also true of a lot of the undergraduates, too, and they come, they kind of know what they want to do, they select it because they have a strong aptitude for something in particular.”

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Author:Louis Menand

“I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.”

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Author:Carol Friedman

“I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.”

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Author:Anton Yelchin

“In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.”

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Author:Scott McClanahan

“Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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