Quotes with terms

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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Whorf My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Barack Obama My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Angela Davis No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bob Menendez Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • J. G. Ballard Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Tooker Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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  • Audre Lorde Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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