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“For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.”

People Men World Way Voice Term Style Serious Music Is Unique Remains Individuality Who I Am Sand Vocation Distinctive Singularity Muster Unique Voices Sands Of Time

Author:Cornel West

“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.”

“I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.”

Knows World Believe Mean I Believe Term Leader Economy Doubt Influence Modern Weapons Adults Nuclear Russia Factors Defined Nuclear Weapons Modern World Defence Nuclear Power World Power

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.”

“The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.”

Want Doe Two Real Use Hands Term Violence Discipline Chaos Terrorism Confusion Bombs Etc Conception Disorder Throwing Regulation Associates Anarchism Anarchist Reluctance

Author:Howard Zinn

“A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.”

World Term Sun Fool Mets Down And Fortune Forests Miserable Folly Live By

Author:William Shakespeare

“I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.”

Done Spirit Night Certain Father Term Walks Fire Crime Doom Foul

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.”

Long Soul Joy Term Produce Perspective Make Sense Long Term Peace And Joy

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.”

Ifs Long Happens Able Bits Term Wall Release Long Term Cracks Boxers Dams

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.”

Knows World Heart May Earth Purpose Causes Term Known Holy Pure Prove Tests Soil Symbolic Barren Allusion Emanate

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“The facilities are amazing here in McLaren. If you compare them to Sauber, who have good facilities in Formula 1, it's another level. But in terms of the people, the way they approach their jobs, is really amazing when you come into McLaren. The emphasis they have is very good and it gives you a big boost when you drive for this team.”

People Ifs Way Giving Bigs Jobs Term Levels Team Approach Very Good Compare Formulas Emphasis Facility Boost Really Amazing Formula 1

Author:Sergio Perez

“Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.”

People Looks Long Government America Term United Issues Huge Structure Long Term Isolated Incidents Crazy Things

Author:Benjamin Carson

“In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.”

Lost Term Republican Seven Congress Ran Incumbents

Author:Jerry McNerney

“I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.”

Want Faces Term Challenges

Author:James Langevin

“What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.”

Children Real Happens Term Brain Development Increase Down And Impact Affected Nutrition Slow Down Corn Short Term Wheat Malnutrition Brain Development

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“Honestly, amongst all of the SHINee members, in the terms of looks, physique, expression, and everything is charismatic, and the only phrase to describe the person is 'near perfection', that member is... ME!”

Looks Persons Term Expression Members Perfection Honestly Phrases Charismatic Physique Shinee

Author:Onew

“In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.”

Ifs Ends Reason Life Is Culture Term Wealth Successful Possibility Riches Defining Acquisition Snares Mercenary

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.”

Ifs Want Should Long Facts Term Reader Profession Journalism Journalist Long Term Credibility

Author:Julian Assange

“Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are ... well, oddly enough we're about even.”

Wells Enough Shows Term One Thing News Fake Competing Credibility Disadvantages

Author:Jon Stewart

“Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.”

Long Ends Term Gone Ready Bird South Release Prisoner Migrants

Book:Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim

Source: Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim

“Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.”

“I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”

Wells Use Life Is Joy Term Meaningful Well Being Contentment Worthwhile Life Is Good

Book:The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.”

People Long Important Action Difficult Term Challenges Cases Issues Trump Benefits Threat Climate Climate Change International Decades Long Term Broads Urgent

Author:Martin Rees

“The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.”

Mean Different Term Generations Our Generation

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'”

People Mean Use Term Industry Computer Idiot Users

Author:Dave Barry

“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”

Ifs Men Should Years Doe Choices Father Term Decision Support Share Independent Finance Pregnancy Liable Autonomous Biological Fathers

Author:Karen DeCrow

“While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”

People May Care Suffering Evil Opportunity Term Sin Intention Deeds Sovereign Short Term Prompts Evil People Enrichment Oversight

Book:Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

“One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.”

Want Writing Firsts Long Book Use Three Energy Term Traps Pitfalls Trilogies

Author:Justin Cronin

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

States Mother Causes Term Common Issues Rights Members League Voters Parenthood Womens Rights Founding Lifelong Indiana Planned Parenthood

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.”

Giving Feels Term Effects Drug Opposites Impression Short Term

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.”

Enjoy Term Emotion Diversity Intellect Vulnerability

Author:Michael Patrick King

“Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.”

Moments Term Bears Sacred Profound Witness Abortion

Author:Merle Hoffman

“In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.”

Stories Fall Term Secret Mystery Reader Creating Knees

Author:Ann-Marie MacDonald

“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”

Use Feelings Term Quality Emotional Color Vehicle

Author:Adolph Gottlieb

“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.”

World Should States Term My Own Simple Views Models Management Complexes Curriculum

Author:Dan Ariely

“I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Use Home Jobs Hate Term Nice Design Calling I Hate

Author:Paula Scher

“From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.”

Term Perspective Thirds Investment Chinese Fourth Volume Trading Korea

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.”

Made Term Gold Enterprise Ponies Sacramento Gold Rush

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.”

Mean Littles Long Term Kindness Dating Lifetime Long Term Gestures Acts Of Kindness Small Acts Small Acts Of Kindness Long Term Marriage Romantic Gestures

Book:Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Source: Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

“I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Important Might Able Together Term Environment

Author:Desiree Rogers

“In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”

Writing Character Stories Action Term Differences Mediums Animation Good Story

Author:Michael Arndt

“The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.”

Facts Term Fiction Historical Bounds Fact And Fiction

Author:Antony Beevor

“The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.”

Helping Certain Term Emotional Army Soldier Clever Ritual Emotional Intelligence Comrade

Author:Antony Beevor

“Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.”

Thinking Has Beens Action Term Race Roles Doors Casts Opening Affirmative Action Affirmative Cognizant

Author:Faye Wattleton

“I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.”

Knows Persons Faces Term Adversity Defeat Congress Seats Abraham Public Life Adversity In Life Personal Business

Author:Aaron Schock

“In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.”

Knows Facts Law Term Lays Determine Rely Instruction Translate Jury Verdict Rely Upon

Author:Alafair Burke

“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”

Long Important Term Economy Innovation Strategy Customers Loyalty Performing Long Term Guarantees Customer Loyalty Irrelevance

Author:Gary Hamel

“I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.”

Littles Law Term Realizing Vocabulary Curves Fastballs

Author:Ted Lyons

“There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.”

Term Revolution Kings Succeed Limits Authority Threat Thrones Sovereign Reign Rivals Coups Impeachment Term Limits

Author:Sam Storms

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