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“Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.”

Knows Needs May Real Use Might Next Language Term Knowing Negative Dare Affirmative Trousers

Author:J. L. Austin

“The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.”

Needs Term Forget Members Congress Constituents

Author:Edward Brooke

“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.”

Needs Term Mediums Defined

Author:Duane Michals

“Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.”

Needs Humans Heart Suffering Term Human Beings Source Goodness Foundation Decent Innate Source Of Strength Reliable Sources

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”

Thinking Men Needs Philosophy Age Difficult Goal Term Ability Absence Vanity Aspiration Denied Academic Malady Irreligion Wrong Thinking

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati

“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.”

“I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.”

Thinking World Needs Believe Humans Two Stories Might I Believe Term Answers Novel Written Essentials Absolutes Stranger Disappear Intimacy Places In The World Human Needs

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive.”

Thinking World Way Needs Different Problem Energy Process Term Higher Lows Different Ways

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Long Goal Term Long Term Korea North Korea Unified

Author:Marco Rubio

“We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.”

People Needs Real Term Real Success

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.”

Needs Long War Nations Term Effects Security Arms Dollars Defense Long Term Adequate Weakening Adequacy

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

Ifs Needs Humans Has Beens Term Violence Century Madness Twentieth Century Climax

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Sometimes Character Actors Understanding Term Trouble Skills Pages Preparation

Author:William H. Macy

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.”

Needs Doe Term Security Depends Harmony Prosperity Careful China Regions Relative Diplomacy Rise Of China

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.”

Way Needs Helping Christian Used Term Lord Demand Majority Available Accepted Doctrine Obedience Protestants Evangelical Need Help

Author:John Howard

“Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life”