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arbitrary colour
All colours are arbitrary. Carl Sagan
arbitrary cover merits press
The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage. Mark McKinnon
arbitrary assertion naturally seem sheer simply victim vision
It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly. Kenneth Burke
arbitrary covered habit perplexity smart
Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision. Dorothy Fisher
arbitrary bill provides repression rights russian truly widespread
Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs. Oleg Orlov
arbitrary face looks pricing
On the face of it, it looks like it should be shorted -- not bought. It's the most arbitrary pricing I've ever seen. Francis Gaskins
arbitrary based gas house inclined prefer relief support tax time
I would be inclined to support gas tax relief on the House floor, but I would prefer the reinstatement of the gas tax be based on price, not an arbitrary time frame, Christopher Shays
arbitrary conclusive final judgment present takes timetable
I don't think we should have some arbitrary timetable ... You give it as long as it takes to come to a conclusive and final judgment they're not cooperating. And at the present they're not. Tony Blair
arbitrary behind boundary data decision hard
Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all. Steve Adams
cannot carry clean coffee cup fact guys help pilots planes running secretary
The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay. Tony Fernandes
cannot clearly correction data dollar downward driven fed near outlook policy term
The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data. John Kyriakopoulos
cannot children
Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times. Beeban Kidron
cannot channel crossing invader narrow since succeeded
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066. David Hewson
cannot measurable science tendency
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. Donald Norman
cannot country creating government solve
You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs. Don Young
cannot
You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. Alice Walker
cannot war
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. Alice Walker
cannot great lincoln
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. Barack Obama
power
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. William Henry Moody
power
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. Nancy Gibbs
powerful writing sometimes
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. Carrie Fisher
powerful empathy needs
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment. Carl Rogers
powerful science feel-good
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good. Carl Sagan
powerful grief acceptance
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney. Carl Sagan
powerful beer eight
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place. Bill Bryson
powerful slave internals
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. Arnold Schoenberg
powerful farewell saying-farewell
Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning. Aron Ralston
vice
Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa. Dev Hynes
vices virtue mere
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. Bergen Evans
vices dignity
There is even the dignity of vice. Antoine Rivarol
vices sickness virtue
Virtue is health, vice is sickness. Petrarch
vice
Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. Matt Mullenweg
vice
Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa. Enrique Pena Nieto
vice
I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. Vice President. Dan Rather
vices moral virtue
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. Charles Caleb Colton
vices morality virtue
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other. David Hume
virtue cheapness
Cheapness is a great virtue. Bill Bryson
virtue
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. William Shakespeare
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. Baroness Orczy
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. William Shakespeare
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
virtue used eternal-vigilance
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. Benjamin Netanyahu