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“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.”

People Ends Matter Causes Term Common Optimism Common Sense Observation Swings Short Term Peasants Ideological Pun Bedrock Pendulums

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.”

Book:A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality

Source: A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality

“Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.”

Knows Left Term Too Much Meditation Goes On Drink Scene Drug Temples Do You Know Know Me Doing You

Author:John Lennon

“If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.”

“I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".”

Use Black Term African American

Author:Rick Santorum

“The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.”

Term My Own Mines Only Time Movie Business Premieres

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it's often in terms of comfort.”

Thinking Way Feels Long Bigs Remember Turns Term Air Dog Comfort Expensive Buying Bags Wow Remember When Long Way My Dog Turn-on Raw Food Air Conditioner

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.”

People Thinking Different Opportunity Term Stage Titles Sequence

Author:David Fincher

“The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?”

World Doe Jobs Term Modern Industry Gender Modern World Payment Gender Equality Ratios Movie Industry

Author:Daryl Hannah

“In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.”

Ifs Term Emotional Happenings

Author:Judd Apatow

“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”

Littles Two Real Character Bits Term Hours Comedy Minutes Little Bit News Stuck Extras Plot Endearment Real Character Terms Of Endearment Fast Times

Author:Judd Apatow

“Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.”

Thinking Wells Seems Fighting Term Practice Gender Gender Equality Norway Forward Thinking Constantly Thinking

Author:Jenny Hval

“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Looks Long Earth Universe Term Space Race Planets Human Race Long Term Horizon Inward Planet Earth

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.”

Should Term Rocks Rock And Roll Misconception

Author:Debbie Harry

“There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.”

Knows Hands Dies Term Essentials Evidence Logic Absurd Command Equations Suppressing

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”

Men Humans Facts Certain Force Term Memories Virtue Mines Type Reader Normal Messages Clothes Luck Curiosity Prophet Distress Distrust Good Memories Detest Metaphorical Seers Maelstrom

Author:Primo Levi

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.”

Thinking Art Term Chinese Patriotism Mexican Universality

Author:Rufino Tamayo

“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Happens Certain Term Loses Concern Long Term

Author:Eric Horvitz

“U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.”

Men May Term Decision Clear Dangerous Citizens Machines Safety Fellows Court Seven Supreme Corporate Republic Conspiracy Supreme Court November Decree

Author:Jim Marrs

“The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.”

Way Bits Term Poor Rich Income Inequality Expenses Mislead Get Rich Income Inequality

Author:Edward Lazear

“Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.”

Years Term White Class Paid Slave Bounds Miserable Servant Wages Laborers

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.”

Ifs Wells Problem Might Term Seeing One Thing Sorrow Safe Rain Dry Incessant Ifs And

Author:Elif Safak

“The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued”

Doe Has Beens Use Term Contemporary Corpus Misconstrued

Book:The Wesleyan Theological Heritage: Essays of Albert C. Outler

Source: The Wesleyan Theological Heritage: Essays of Albert C. Outler

“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”

Ifs Long Whole Use Together Term Levels Results Five Risk Talent Sweet Charity Profit Extremes Humanitarian Long Term Disadvantages

Book:Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.”

Ifs I Can Use Today Sides Term Loses Vision Tomorrow Politician Research Routes Short Term

Author:Rolf-Dieter Heuer

“The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.”

Ifs Giving Looks Mean Life Is Term Imagine Share Understood Bills Rewards Reactions Get Back Fulfilling Phenomenal Spades Courtney

Author:Bill Courtney

“Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.”

Term Pay Conditions Equal Employment Decent Reaching Employers Equal Pay Decent Work

Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

“Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.”

Way Term Influence Mines Majors Miles

Author:Stefon Harris

“The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its costs (like pollution).”

Mean Term Cost Benefits Entrepreneur Profit Get Away Pollution Free Market Euphemism Socializing

Author:Steve Kangas

“In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.”

“Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.”

“I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.”

Term Study College Hot Confused Insecure Rebellious Hot Headed

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells May Stills Government Christian Courses Games Term Willing Understood Forgiving Patient Leaving Available Surrender Cards Repentance

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.”

Long Would Be Courses Goal Term Path Evolution Horse Obstacles Long Term Flats Receiver Legion Freeways Analogue Long Term Success

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.”

Kind Values Term Justice Ethics Europe India China Absence Discussion Frustration Japan Discourse Brazil Public Discourse Places I've Been

Author:Michael Sandel

“There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.”

Men Made Term Connections Unions British Cease Britain Empires Yield Parliament Propose Great Britain British Empire British Parliament

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.”

Found Term Vague Complaints

Book:The waltz of the toreadors: a play in three acts. Translated by Lucienne Hill

Source: The waltz of the toreadors: a play in three acts. Translated by Lucienne Hill

“One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.”

“Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.”

World Should Soul Whole Term Accepting Knowing Subjects Possibility This World Acceptance Humility Materials Ego Disappear Destroyed Totality Vicissitudes

Author:Simone Weil

“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”

Thinking Men World Years Long Has Beens Helping Problem Earth Lost Term Millions Tomorrow Impatient Lost Faith

Author:Rachel Carson

“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.”

“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“There's nothing as short as short-term debt.”

Term Debt Short Term

Author:Evan Esar

“What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.”

World Trying Art Different Whole Reality Term Effects Fool Critics Creator Whole World Mysterious Turner Impressionism

Author:Claude Debussy

“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.”

Firsts States Values Term Written Particular Expression Morality Function Absolutes Justify Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Protective Propriety

Author:William O. Douglas

“The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.”

Giving Years America Term Class Members Prison Congress Average Criminals Release Backwards Murderer Tenure

Author:Pat Robertson

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan