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“I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.”

Long Term Letting Go Long Term Investors Telescopes Hubble Hubble Space Telescope

Author:Story Musgrave

“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.”

“"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Wisdom Christian Politics Term Religious Economy Expression Socialism Liberalism Contradiction Implying

Book:Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.”

“Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.”

Bits Goal Term Economy Fields Projects Management Partners Capability Project Management

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.”

Giving Term Silence Atheism Insight Positive Atheism Rational Rooted Intuitive Meaning Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.”

Thinking Important Success Winning Term Views Careers Buddhism Losing Enlightenment Winning And Losing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.”

Ifs Thinking Want Universe Term Illusion Labels Mysticism You Choose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.”

Want Literature Term Decision Broadcasting

Author:Lisa Guerrero

“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.”

Believe Book Ideas Reason Term Religious Atheism Dangerous Amount No Reason Reviews Skeptic Dangerous Ideas

Author:Garrett Hardin

“I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.”

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.”

“That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.”

“Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.”

Use Seems Term Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Confusion Agnostic Agnosticism Referring Ambiguous Rationalism

Book:An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.”

Believe Doe Two Term Existence Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Superiors Strict Without God Signifying

Book:A Biblical and theological dictionary

Source: A Biblical and theological dictionary

“Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.”

Men World Use Order Grows Understanding Term Views Existence Environment Atheism Objects Thirds Positive Atheism Cease Contact Thrown Unified Existentialist

Author:Paul Watzlawick

“I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I'm an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I'm here for him.”

Way Different Guy Three Term Successful Basketball My Way Corporations Ran Ceo Realist Consultants Older Guys

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.”

Knows Trying Said Wanted Guy Turns Names Stars Waiting Term Example Position Basketball Mafia Lakers Old Movie Corleone

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.”

World Long Term Liberty Security Depends Around The World Long Term

Author:George W. Bush

“Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.”

World Feels Trying Stuff Term Comedy Creation Like You Sells Pitching Proactive

Author:Anna Faris

“I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."”

Knows Trying Mean Bigs Guy Term Rooms Talking Excuse Bunch Hey Excuse Me Layman

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”

Kind Term Compassion Opinion Information Internet Diets Quantity Sheer Fatigue Niagara

Author:Larry Gelbart

“I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.”

Shows Term Horror

Author:Angela Bassett

“For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.”

People Wells Character Actors Wish Term Personality Weapons Intelligent Characteristics

Author:Zoe Saldana

“You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.”

Term Honest Being Honest Ruthless

Author:Patton Oswalt

“The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.”

Knows Two Turns Three Actors Term Lines Bottom Excited Bunch Producers Eggs Bottom Line Bad Times No Brainer

Author:Kathy Bates

“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.”

Want Art Hard Artist Term Hours Materials Findings Research Visuals Department Impress Props

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.”

People Needs Mean Use Law Used Universe Term Decided Physics Laws Of Physics Shorthand

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.”

People Thinking World Looks Black Term White Scary Shade Black And White Grey Shades Of Grey

Author:E. L. James

“Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.”

Ifs Want Trying Kids Stars Bits Term Rocks Depends Sensational Tarts Sensationalism

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.”

Giving Firsts Film Used Given Term Quality Technology Independent Extraordinary Access Used To Be Expenses Filmmaking New Technology

Author:Kathleen Turner

“I do like working on independent films where it is a smaller budget and less pressure. The pace is also quicker than that of a big budget film. You are shooting at a fairly fast pace. Sitting around for three or four days can be quite draining. So I guess in terms of film or television, I would say filming an independent feature.”

Bigs Film Three Term Four Television Sitting Pressure Independent Shooting Budgets Features Pace Sitting Around Independent Film Draining

Author:Colm Meaney

“Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have. That's what I mean when I say branding and developing yourself, as a business.”

Want Should Mean Long I Can Term Directors Projects Developing Long Term Branding Long Term Relationship

Author:Kevin Hart

“My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.”

Thinking Play School Film Actors Fun Term Knowing Directors Communicate Screws Film School

Author:Josh Radnor

“Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.”

Term Attitude Mood Going Through Changes

Author:Andrew W.K.

“I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.”

People Thinking Art Term Art Is Pops Baskets Pop Art Impressionism Conceptual Art

Author:John Baldessari

“I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?”

Ifs Language Term Painting Normal Paint Definitions Why Not Canvas

Author:John Baldessari

“My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.”

People Way Term Laughing Comedy Brother Mom Dad My Dad My Mom My Brother

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.”

World Writing Littles Kids Wanted Fun Term Interest Comedy Talent I Realized Little Kid

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.”

Writing Done Process Term Hours Creativity Type Drink Drug Paper Drinking Smoke Staring Smoking Users Moderation Writing Process Smoking And Drinking

Author:Ryan Lewis

“When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.”

Knows Feelings Home Wanted Felt Process Term Lonely Constant My Thoughts Thought Process

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.”

Want Happens Together Goal Term Leader Military Accomplish Intervention Pentagon Military Intervention

Author:Jack Keane

“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.”

“I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution. I think we have a whole roomful of people that have record legislation in terms of quantity of pages that didn't read it.”

People Thinking Knows Whole Term Records Pages Constitution Congress Quantity Legislation

Author:Rick Santelli

“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Trying Persons Whole Helping Would Be Care Jobs Term Issues Conservative One Way Health Care Make Sense Logical Host

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”

Character Kids Action Guy Term Natural Comedy Adventure Males Wrestling Extensions Wayne Macho

Author:Hulk Hogan

“We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.”

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.”

Ifs Knows World Term Absolutes Finance Inches

Author:Stephen Harper

“A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.”

Source: Joan of Arc: And Other Selections from Thomas De Quincey. Joan of Arc. The English mail coach (abridged).. Levana and our ladies of sorrow. Dinner, real and reputed (abridged).. I.. II.. III.. IV.