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accessible claimed million national retailers running specials
We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful. Dennis Crowley
encouragement able want
We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question. Gerhard Schroder
criticism different talent
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism. Frank A. Clark
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We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities. Rebecca Solnit
american-musician thin
We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that. Tre Cool
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States. Baba Kalyani
men thinking mirrors
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Richard Le Gallienne
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We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. Ann Macbeth
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. Gloria Estefan
time fate literature
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch
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We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past. Louise Slaughter
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. Frances Wright
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We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information. Robert Lanza
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We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it. Alice Waters
english-musician generation gig gigs nervous recording
Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. Roger Daltrey
Top Life quotes
surfing musical backgrounds
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. Caroline Corr
believed degree empowering evolving government individual inertia rapidly respond
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis. Michael Burgess
dance two numbers
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. Evander Holyfield
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran
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We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. Robert Reich
Top Positive quotes
endangered life present solutions
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. Ulrich Beck
jobs healthy care
Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you. Ron Wyden
iran government people
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. Azar Nafisi
vulgarity-is revealing-something literature
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster
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We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. Roger Moore
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To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices. Mark Helprin
telephones criticize
To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. Jesse Eisenberg
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Marshall McLuhan
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. Leo Ornstein
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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. Thomas Friedman
christ
To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
looked
To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor. Adam Richman
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To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century. Peter Abrahams
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures. Ted Sarandos
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came form heroes meet
To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you. Neil Strauss
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To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person. Sanjay Kumar
trying economy ends
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. Leo Burnett
practice order generosity
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus
justice needs too-much
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. Agatha Christie
Top Love quotes
good sing
They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good. Chris LeDoux
doing-nothing
We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option. Lee H. Hamilton
technology technological-change entertainment
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. Michael Eisner
reforms structural voices
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform. Enrique Pena Nieto
sister age supportive
There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life. Alvin Lee
Top Romantic quotes
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There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people. Mohammed Morsi
differences profound decision
There is a profound difference between information and meaning. Warren G. Bennis
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. Mahatma Gandhi
party president financial
There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch. Thomas Frank
creativity joy feelings
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
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