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'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book. Maureen Johnson
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In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public. Shah Rukh Khan
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There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.
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We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.
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I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less. Brooke Smith
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It is not acceptable that our soldiers should put themselves at risk or even sacrifice their lives for a fundamentalist, illiberal regime. Francesco Cossiga
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It is not acceptable that certain member states indulge in underhand competition to attract international investment and entice European companies to relocate their headquarters. Lionel Jospin
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It is not acceptable for women to constitute 70 percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor. Nor is it acceptable for women to work two-thirds of the world's working hours, but earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-tenth of the worl's property. Many fundamental changes must be made. Noeleen Heyzer
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It is no longer acceptable to out conditions on reviving the peace process,
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What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years. Ken Ham
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Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted. Don Tapscott
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I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.
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I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.
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The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. Tony Buzan
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. Muhammad Yunus
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Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006. Nandan Nilekani
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Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.
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I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it. James Wolfensohn
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I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
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Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.
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He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.
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Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced. Kenneth Miller
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something. Sam Brownback
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It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes. Seth Shostak
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I think the current market price is a reasonable level.
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We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.
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To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled. Dick Cheney