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• The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

  Ben Stein

  Law, People, Credit

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• Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it’s sometimes amazing what comes out of people.

  Nathan Fielder

  People, Goal, Sometimes

  "Nathan Fielder's Ingenious Dumb Humor" by Johan Weiner, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2014.

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• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Banking, Coins

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• I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Drama, College, Years

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• When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

  Dan Savage

  Kids, Gay, Assumption

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• It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

  Laini Taylor

  Sadness, Expression, Way

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• I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girlfriend, Men, Thinking

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• I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

  Veronica Roth

  Love, Lying, Fighting

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, October 22, 2013.

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• Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religious, Religion, Cosmos

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• Pessimism is my default setting.

  Miranda Hart

  Pessimism, Settings, Setting

  "Britain's funniest women". Interview with Stuart Husband, Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 27, 2010.

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• The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Political, Faults

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• I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

  Frank Caliendo

  Ideas, Tvs, Journalism

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• I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Doulas, Welcome

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Men, World, Scylla

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• People don't like what I represent, and they think I'm trying to represent the whole gay community just because I'm a gay person and I make music. By default I'm supposed to represent a whole community? I think that's ridiculous.

  Steve Grand

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

  Steve McConnell

  Simplicity, Elements, Movement

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.48, Microsoft Press

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• I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  White, Looks, Fiction

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

  Alanis Morissette

  Promise, Snapshots, Records

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• When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Names, Together

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1620, Delphi Classics

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• The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Hatred

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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• Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Understanding, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.

  Justina Chen

  Sorry, Get Well Soon, Flower

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• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dog, Oatmeal

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 27, 2002.

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• There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Order, Atheism

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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