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“I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical for living organisms as, for instance, those appearing in the biological evolution.”

Ifs Trying Use Order Courses Chance Evolution Concepts Angry Instance Organisms Typical Appearing Biologist Living Organisms Biological Evolution

Author:Wolfgang Paul

“The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.”

Understanding Response Deeper Intuition Experts Typical Disadvantages Beginners Traders Novices

Author:Charles Faulkner

“It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.”

Mind Creative Nails Typical Creative Mind

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.”

Knows Years Said Shows Eye Next Goal Models Budgets Episodes Blank Embarrassed Typical Businessman Next Year Talk Shows

Author:Tyra Banks

“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.”

People States Character Individual Mass Capitalism Structure Russia Capitalist Helpless Typical Altered Elimination Replacements

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.”

Thinking Kind Problem Seems Certain Interesting Half Principles Absolutes Drawing Quantity Typical Comprehensive Clumsy Caricatures Absolute Truth Half Truth

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”

Should Kind Children School Certain Students Politician Adults Regard Typical Pupils

Author:Anthony Daniels

“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”

“A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

Real Sound Issues Policy Vices Statements Radical Meat Phrases Typical American Politics Fury Cautious Avoidance Announcements Weasels

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

Whole Government Spiritual Sin Sacrifice Blood Israel Ritual Typical Calvary

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.”

“Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.”

“As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues.”

Honor Members Concern Gold Congress Affected Typical Colleagues Medal Rumor Tribute Constituents Gold Medals Mistreatment

Author:Leo Ryan

“The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.”

Ifs Men Would Be Today Games Principles Pressure Mere Favors Typical Astrology Grotesque Polygamy Cannibalism Lawmakers

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.”

Sea Type Rivers Series Fishes British Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rebellion Typical

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.”

Mind Kind Film Given Century Periods Horror Hollywood Distance Setting Settings Typical 19th Century 1930s

Author:Andrew Tudor

“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”

“Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.”

“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.”

Firsts Littles Ends School Church Atheism Youth Comfort Safety Quests Typical Safety First

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.”

Men Country Bigs Sound Business Opinion Regard Admiration Dislike Typical No Trust

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.”

Thinking Men Problem Issues Wife Higher Corporate More Money Typical Ladders Often Is

Author:Meryl Streep

“Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.”

Persons Asks Enjoy Forever Return Investors Typical Speculation Betting Portfolios Speculators Global Business

Author:John C. Bogle

“Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can.”

Knows Trying Important Jobs Months Marketing Apples Typical Exposure Getting To Know Each Other

Author:John Sculley

“The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.”

Matter Government Moving Used Names Cases Issues Cutting Internet Taxes Increase Clothings Sheep Fairness Typical Revenue Unwilling Expenditures Tax Increases Ploy Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

Author:Bob Barr

“I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.”

Thinking Men Kind Actors Hollywood Typical Looking Good

Author:Ryan Gosling

“We dont need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.”

Needs Believe Play Fighting Interest Special Politician Folks Champion Owners Typical Small Business Special Interests Business Owners Small Business Owners

Author:Tim Walz

“Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.”

Believe Sometimes Loyal Typical Stubborn Astrology Hardworking Capricorns

Author:Jonah Peretti

“Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.”

“Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.”

Ideas Language Racism Racist Mutual Sexism Permit Mastery Typical Sexist New Knowledge

Author:Toni Morrison

“It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.”

Wells Transition Bells Typical Alarms

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.”

Persons America Left Behinds United States Roots Typical Left Behind Hometown

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.”

Would Be Bits Green Dinner Ireland Cheese Cream Typical Strawberries Peas Lobster Cream Cheese

Author:Nancy Mitford

“By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.”

Has Beens Done Government Car Promise Driven Holes Indian Typical Reservations

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss”

Loss Ignorance Ultimate Investing Profit Temporary Typical Bulls Superfluous Handicaps Roaring Speculators Bull Markets

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.”

People Thinking Way Play Home Term Hurt Saws Revolution Negative Raised Hypocrisy Typical Puritan Playboy Methodists Sexual Revolution

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America

“Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.”

Problem Dies Attention Messages Reactions Typical Mock Messengers Scrutiny

Author:Anat R. Admati

“I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.”

People Ends Done Attention Laughing Models Smart Assuming Video Like Me Educated Plenty Interviews Articles Typical Chasing Earnest Narcissistic Make Me Laugh Very Smart

Author:Megan Fox

“I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.”

Two Sides Typical Two Sides

Author:Ben Whishaw

“I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.”

Needs Feels Stars Hair Needed Distance Glasses Heavy Extras Ashamed Makeup Typical Lashes

Author:Star Jones

“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

Enough Mother Daughter Perfection Strive Good Enough Typical Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship Striving For Perfection Never Good Enough

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.”

People Needs Mean Different Easy Careers Roles Havens Fame Size Typical Stature Jocks Picky Preppy Choosy

Author:Kellan Lutz

“One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.”

Firsts Sexuality Typical

Book:Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime

Source: Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime

“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.”

People Mother Cooking Dinner Thirty Kitchen Grandmother Farms Typical My Grandmother Recipes

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“People look at me and they dont see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.”

People Thinking Looks Typical Look At Me Aboriginal

Author:Shari Sebbens

“I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.”

Years Wells Problem Remember Trouble Discipline Twenties Males Typical Causing Trouble

Author:Peter DeLuise

“The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.”

“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.”

World Country Together President Bigger Humanitarian Broads Typical Frenchmen

Book:Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times

Source: Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times

“There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.”

Thinking Writing Born Feet Childhood Habit Pages Assets Usual Typical Shyness Drawbacks Fluent

Author:Lorrie Moore

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