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• I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.

  Tracy Chapman

  Stores, Explanation, Plans

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• ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Purpose, Ontology, Logic

  Colin MacLaurin (1756). “A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines”, p.1

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• If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.

  George Papandreou

  Spain, Prejudice, Would Be

  "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.

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• A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Racism, Enemy, United States

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Creating

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• Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

  Ann Leckie

  Together, Identity, Ordinary

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• Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Beautiful, Real, Nice

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

  John R. Rice

  John R. Rice (1944). “Soul Winning”, p.20, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Legs, Path

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Numbers, Wish

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• I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Patriotism, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.31, David M Gross

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• For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.

  Lynn Steen

  Real, People, Intuition

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• The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Naked, Citizens

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIII: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants, Ch. 29: Of Hospitals, 1748.

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• Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Hurt, Promise, Needs

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sports, Thinking, Voice

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.21

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• Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.

  R. D. Laing

  Art, People, Usual

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• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, People, Bears

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

  Paul McCartney

  People, Riding, Doe

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• In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

  Robert Bateman

  Sweet, Pudding, Flavor

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• Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

  John Huston

  Roots, Use

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• Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Thinking, Names, Political

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Military, Responsibility

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

  Jack Vance

  Citing, Ends, Seems

  Jack Vance (2000). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.716, Macmillan

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• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Men, Work Out

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.72, Broadview Press

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• Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, People, Operations

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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