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• Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.

  Joanna Lohman

  Boys, Hair, Body

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• America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.

  Burt Rutan

  War, Russia, America

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Air, Majesty, Compression

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Order, Purpose, Realizing

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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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• It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.

  Barack Obama

  War, Mind, Fundamentals

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

  Aristotle

  Law, Degrees, Doe

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.88

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• In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.

  Alex Kozinski

  Fashion, Real, Passion

  "It Is a Constitution We Are Expounding: A Debate" by A. Kozinski & J.D. Williams, Utah L. Rev. 978, at 980, 1989.

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• Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.

  Hugh Walpole

  Running, Country, Book

  Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

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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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• I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.

  Patrick Henry

  Government, Giving, People

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• Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Mean, Space

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.324

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• A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Pieces, Form

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• I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

  Raymond Loewy

  Car, Should, Industry

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• Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

  H. G. Wells

  Blow, Ideas, People

  H. G. Wells (2005). “The Soul of a Bishop”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rights, Citizens, Kind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.138, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

  Dan Brown

  Writing, Essence, Water

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• All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

  John Taylor

  Law, Broken, Constitution

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• Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

  William Falconer

  Issues, Water, Ships

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.238

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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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• Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Tree, Moisture, Texture

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter X "Highland and Lowland Fir", Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

  Eric Baum

  Science, World, Dynamics

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• What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Risk, Innovation, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Sea, Two

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

  Walter Pater

  Law, Mind, Association

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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