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• My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

  Robin McKinley

  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  Anne Carson

  Cutting, Orange, Toss

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• In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

  Vaclav Havel

  Effort, Horizon, Strive

  Vaclav Havel (2009). “To the Castle and Back”, p.285, Vintage

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• Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

  Jasper Fforde

  Personality, Care, Meetings

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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• Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?

  Jon Stewart

  Marijuana, Needs, Action

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• I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

  Clarence Thomas

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

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• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Gold, American Voters

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

  Karl Hess

  Children, Home, Exercise

  "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

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• It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

  Peter Oliver

  People, Support, Rebel

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• If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Race, Color, Titles

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• I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Weed, New York, Team

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• I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

  Samuel Alito

  Government, Abortion, Doe

  Samuel Alito's letter (1985), as quoted in "Alito denied that Constitution protected abortion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2005.

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• And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Stress, Opportunity, Race

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• Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, America, Political

  Third Debate: Page 9, abcnews.go.com. October 17.

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• If you think quotas mean the best person not getting the job, you have to believe that the best person always gets the job at the moment. Do you really believe there are more than three times more men named John qualified to lead FTSE 100 companies in the UK than all the women put together? All the 32 MILLION women combined? Just statistically, that doesn't make sense.

  Laura Bates

  Jobs, Believe, Mean

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• We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

  David Willetts

  Running, Believe, Would Be

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• I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.

  Mark Dever

  Responsibility, Men, Two

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  Fady Joudah

  Fall, Machines, Safe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.

  James M. Buchanan

  Opportunity, Giving, Office

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  Hal Duncan

  Character, Thinking, Long

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• I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Views, Political

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Married, Lawyer

  Source: www.politico.com

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