Quotes with terms

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  • Andrew Jackson Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Artur Davis Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Atom Egoyan That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Socrates The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Aldous Huxley The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Ann Macbeth The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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