Quotes with terms

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  • George Bernard Shaw How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
    Letter to Reverdy Johnson (26 July 1862).
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anita Hill I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • George Michael I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
    George Michael
    English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist (1963 - 2016)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Margaret Mead I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
    Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Ann Veneman I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bill Gates I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hader I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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