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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.
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,
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.
ballot call strike until
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. Neil Kinnock
ballot duty elected hold public simply
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box. Wesley Clark
ballot card giving hoping memory name people shaking state
That whole name recognition thing is huge. You need to get around the state as much as you can, giving people your card and shaking hands. I've been on the ballot once before so I'm hoping that's in the back of people's memory.
ballots broken butterfly congress crisis declares election hanging independence nearly outdated system
Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago. Steny Hoyer
ballots candidates city count counting election law numbers receive rush sure voters week york
We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.
ballot far voting
Voting so far is going pretty well considering that we have not had a whole lot on the ballot because there is not much opposition.
ballot constantly misses parties voters whether
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point. Nick Clegg
ballots election equipment officials provide voters work
Voters should know we are working with officials to provide ballots and equipment that will work well on Election Day.
ballot connects current voters
Voters see little on the ballot that connects to their current concerns.
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.
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.
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
screen silences sweep
The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end. Ben Kingsley
screens setting shot work
We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection.
screen
I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows! Patricia Clarkson
screen tough
We aren't tough enough to screen out. I'd like to see us screen out harder. We didn't do that well, either.
screen
We got close, the screen that was tipped was a walk-in from my vantage point, Kerry Collins
screenplay
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. Jonathan Tropper
screening sold
If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.
screen shot trying
I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick. Joe Sakic
screenwriting storyteller
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. Diablo Cody
useful
That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.
useful validate
It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization. John Montgomery
useful
They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.
useful
as long as I feel it is useful to be here.
useful
Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.
usefulness
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like. Ellen Terry