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• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  Umberto Eco

  Reading, Different, Poetic

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.545, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Views, Different, Assuming

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• The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

  Theodor Adorno

  Time, Men, Yesterday

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.175, Verso

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• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

  Babyface

  Records, Produce, Wells

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• Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

  Michael McCaul

  Fire, Texas, Years

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• Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

  Al Jarreau

  Fashion, People, Records

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, School, Democracy

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

  Norm Coleman

  School, College, America

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Yield

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Media, Silence, News

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• The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

  George Pataki

  Giving, Smoking, Effort

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• Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

  Jose Bergamin

  Mean, Needs, Tradition

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• I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

  Anne Campbell

  Thinking, Long, Boards

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• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  Camille Paglia

  Change, Beauty, Believe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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• If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

  Gwen Ifill

  Country, Moving, People

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

  Bill Toomey

  Past, Roles, Olympian

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• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Movie, Summer, Past

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• I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

  Kim Kardashian

  Clothes, Design, Fragrance

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• I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

  Brett Favre

  Play, Favors, Knows

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• Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

  Roy Ayers

  Years, Numbers, People

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• Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Views

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• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Government, Patterns

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