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• Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Expression, Homicidal

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Liberty, Vigilant

  Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

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• We were one of the first states to move most of our email into the cloud. That's gone really, really well; I think it's exceeded expectations. When we think about doing major information technology projects in this state, the default is cloud.

  Mike Powell

  Moving, Technology, Thinking

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• When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stress, Cat, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Commitment, Korea, Years

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• Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, New Things

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

  George Papandreou

  Pain, Greek, Reform

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• There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

  Robert Brault

  People, Realizing, Whole Life

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• Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

  Steve Carell

  Nice, Thinking, Hands

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• In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

  Tim Sweeney

  World, Imperatives

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• Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

  Alan Greenspan

  Thinking, Credit, Serious

  "Quote of the Day – 10.23.08" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Europe, World

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.

  Dylan Moran

  Growing Up, America, Land

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• Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

  Roxane Gay

  Fiction, Whiteness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

  Lauren Mackler

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.

  Chelsea Manning

  Dream, Organization, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Bridges, Focus, Needs

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

  Roxane Gay

  Needs, Matter, Assuming

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Responsibility, Islands, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

  Lucas Papademos

  Reform, Debt, Exit

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• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Dream, People, Empowering

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• People always say The God Father is the #1 movie of all time. But ask yourself, did you see Zach Braff in it....No you didn't. So then by default it goes to Garden State..and if youwatch two episodes of scrubs back to back that counts as the #2.

  Zach Braff

  Father, Garden, Two

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• Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Should Have, Mind, Affair

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South”, p.18, Knopf

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• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  People, Parent, Womb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  World, Safe, Ability

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