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• Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

  Robert Breault

  People, Wish, Arbitrary

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• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Atrocities, Ordinary, Consciousness

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books

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• The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

  Alex Webb

  Eye, Photograph, Viewers

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• The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Rights, Titles

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.44

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• You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Men, Attention

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• Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much would you save if you decreased your temperature of your house in the winter by one degree, or increase it by one degree? We just don't know these numbers, but I think displays could make it a memorable change in terms of attention, and also help us translate it in terms of concrete ways on what you can get.

  Dan Ariely

  Memorable, Winter, Thinking

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

  Epicurus

  Men, Justice, May

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• ...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Principles, Sovereign

  Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.73, Madison & Adams Press

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• Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

  Epicurus

  Men, Natural Justice, Protect

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Play, Giving

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• Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.

  Morris Kline

  Expression, Innovation, Groups

  Morris Kline (1990). “Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times”, p.795, Oxford University Press

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• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

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• The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

  John C. Calhoun

  Party, Independent, Errors

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.73

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• The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

  Edward William Lane

  Taken, Government, Islam

  "An Arabic-English Lexicon". Book by Edward William Lane, Book I Part II, Jizya, p. 422, 1865.

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• The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Two, Results

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.203

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• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Degrees

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.176

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• There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.

  James Madison

  Party, Government, Views

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• It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

  Jack Valenti

  Simple, Firsts, Censorship

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• People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Organization, Discipline

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  People, India, Different

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  Epicurus

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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