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“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.”

People Earth Term Imagine Illness Treated Optimistic Imagine That Fulfilling

Author:Jane Roberts

“Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?”

Together Values House Term Company Economic Standards Stealing Forests Block Analysis Greek Temples Isolated Thieves Precise Joints Marble Copper Timber Wiring Assessing Vandals

Author:Stewart Brand

“I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.”

Believe Long Form Term Long Term

Author:Anthony Crosland

“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Thinking Way Giving Years Believe Mean Political Social Term Party Economic Serious Conflict Years Ago Crisis Developing Revolutionary Capitalist Socialist Stagnation Socialist Party

Author:Anthony Crosland

“The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.”

Philosophy Problem Might Term Possibility Solve Realms Actuality Realm Of Possibility

Book:From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy

Source: From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy

“UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.”

People Term Advantage Manage Enjoyed Unfair Cheat

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.”

Humans Values Term Saws Labor Rewards Our Society Exploitation

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”

Thinking Wells May Helping Would Be Political Names Term Economy Economics Minors Convenient Troublesome Alterations Substitution Political Economy

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.”

Source: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

“We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.”

World Ends Happens Action Term Behinds Economic Century Military Position Planets Excellence France Gaps Capability 21st Century Superpower

Author:Mitt Romney

“In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.”

Years May Different Past Moving Term Party Europe Seven Instance France Shallow Seven Years

Author:Mitt Romney

“It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.”

Said Ends Today Political Causes Term Situation Evolution Consequence Terrorist Examination

Book:Infinite Thought

Source: Infinite Thought

“Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.”

People Made Shows Able Culture Term Realizing Fans Identity Television Lifetime Come Up Our Society Inclusion Appreciative Really Deep

Author:Jennifer Beals

“The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.”

Facts Term Modern Movement Ultimate Aim Physics Biology Chemistry

Author:Francis Crick

“I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out in a blaze of glory on my own terms than let anybody dictate anything to me in my career. I had the chance to wrestle The Undertaker [on Smackdown in 2013], and one thing I took away from it was that he looked me in the eye and said, 'Trust your instincts because you've got great instincts.'”

Said Eye Term Loses Chance My Own Careers One Thing Glory Instinct Fades No Fear Fade Away Have No Fear Nothing To Lose Burn Out Undertaker Trust Your Instincts

Author:Dean Ambrose

“The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design.”

World Needs Humans Term Design Fields Enlightenment Intelligent Inquiry Intelligent Design

Book:Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Source: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

“I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).”

“These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

People Kind Two Problem Term Company Pressure Crisis Financial Entity Housing Affordable Macs Financial Crisis Mae Affordable Housing

Author:Barney Frank

“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.”

“In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline”

Long Has Beens Important Matter Growth Term Company Ten Investment Nine Factors Long Term Consideration Decline Dominant Fluctuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is kind of like a strong mother. Like when your mom says like, "put that down!" you know that is coming from a place of both love and strength. And at this critical stage in human history we need both action and caring.”

Knows Needs Humans Kind Action Mother House Strong Term Heard Stage Mom Caring Critical Speakers Human History Describing Your Mom Nancy Strength And Love

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.”

People Thinking World Needs Trying Kind Term Silence My Friends Tolerance Mess New Yorkers Trying To Change Small Talk Thinking Deeply

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.”

People Littles I Can Term Quality Listening Higher Terrible Computer Hearing Get Back Speakers Listening To Music Hearing Music Quality Music

Author:James Taylor

“There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.”

Different Games Individual Sports Term Team Football Offers Skills Training Management Time Management Football Team Different Life Life Skills

Author:Hope Powell

“We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.”

Term Terrorism

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.”

Feels Sometimes Term Comedy Changed Fingers Pulse

Author:Bobby Lee

“In terms of cooking with friends, I realized early on that all great meals seem to start and end in the kitchen, and the more you can get people engaged and hands-on, the better the memories will be. So when people come into your kitchen while you're cooking and prepping and politely ask, "Do you need any help?" the key is to say yes.”

People Needs Ends Helping Hands Seems Asks Term Memories Keys Cooking I Realized Engaged Meals Kitchen

Author:Rick Tramonto

“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.”

World Firsts War Would Be Able Jobs President Term Saws Worst Information Cold Vulnerable Cold War Integrated Information Society

Author:William J. Clinton

“Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?”

Knows Long Three Term Couple Long Term Zone Three Times Time Zones

Author:Amy Argetsinger

“I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.”

Thinking World Needs Games Sports Term Century Media Humble Life Or Death

Author:Tim Tebow

“I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.”

Men Believe Long Has Beens I Believe Term Couple Gay Benefits Deserve Treated Long Term Long Term Relationship

Author:Dick Cheney

“Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.”

Ifs Term Cost Disease Increase Innovation Favors Cures Saving Exception Regimes Healthcare Incentives Saving Money Diabetes Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Bill Gates

“Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.”

Term Debate African American Altered American Music African American Music

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.”

Thinking Joy Voice Term Vision Sacrifice Bears Crosses Pursue Serving Vocation Serving Others Crucifixion

Author:Cornel West

“Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.”

“There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.”

People Ifs Should Reason Desire Term Serious Brother Permanent Reason Why No Reason

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.”

May Made Next Social Term Views Physics Sociology Proceeding Montesquieu

Book:The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

Source: The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”

Mean Long Running Courses Term Development Research Percent Investing Profit Consistently Short Term Haul Research And Development Sony Long Haul

Author:Akio Morita

“History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.”

Men Reality Term Example Masters Degrees Men And Women Tests Performances Filled Congress Servant Accomplishment Conventional Propositions Badges Certificates Diploma

Author:Warren E. Burger

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

“The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.”

Term Successful Talent Poet Unique Intelligent Peter Mainstream Life Altering Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Unique Talents Term Life

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.”

Feels Important Artist Term Intellectual Aspect Oneself Definitions Isolated

Author:Jasper Johns

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.”

“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Men Has Beens Ends Difficult Term Failing Ready Secure Wrecks Incompetent Removal

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.”

Term Policy Credit Corporate Fixed Confusing Payment Default Premium Insurance Policy Credit Default Swap Corporate Bond

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.”

People Use Opportunity Black Term Results Greater Models Scholes Pricing

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.”

Thinking Kind Character Shows Term Fans Happenings Tough Driven Salt Grain Frustrated Consistency Get Real Grain Of Salt

Author:Eva LaRue

“We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!”

People Giving Made Two Reality Today Together Term Progress Type Giving Up Rate Cancer Various Decades Recovery Cures Stride Detection

Author:Eva LaRue

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