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zero honesty funny-life
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
zero children school
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used. Chris Crutcher
zero communication nsa
When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems. Edward Snowden
zero boeing pay
So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes. Bernie Sanders
zero space emptiness
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. David Foster Wallace
zero balance finals
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined. Ronald Fisher
zero school guitar
As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette. Tig Notaro
zero derivatives extremes
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. Steven Strogatz
zero dna one-day
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. Sam Harris
childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood growing happens memories next stay
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. The Years
childhood dream life lived taking
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. Bernard Berenson
childhood growing nasty
I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood. Jennifer Anderson
taught women-bashing men-bashing
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. Coco Chanel
taught students medical
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. E. B. White
taught-us leader flags
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing. Tom Robbins
taught-us study one-thing
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. Neil Gaiman
taught virtue
Is virtue something that can be taught? Plato
taught-us mind paper
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind. Mark Twain
taught team winning
She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.
taught-us agency way
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do. Gordon B. Hinckley
taught-us use brian
Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. Jerry Harrison