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• Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Important, Want

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.66, New Riders

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• The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Way, Disappointed

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• Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Government, Doe, Anarchy

  "Super Bowl and Super Tuesday". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2008.

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• I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

  Bill Huizenga

  Want, Kind, Happens

  "GOP warned of 'death spiral'" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

  Criss Jami

  Needs, Just Being, Feels

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Latin

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• Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.

  Michael Hudson

  Talking, Oil, Cost

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults.

  Michael Hudson

  House, Suffering, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.

  David Salle

  New York, Years, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

  Sharlto Copley

  Self, People, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

  Romany Malco

  Commitment, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

  Brendan Dooling

  Emotional, Different, Response

  "Brendan Dooling is passionate about everything he works on". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Memories, Compassion, Drunk

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Want, Moments

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Commitment, Responsibility

  "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.

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• The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, Would Be, Debt

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• Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

  Mike Belkin

  Gold, Safe, Form

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• As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

  Richard Dooling

  Experts, Machines, Use

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• As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feminist, World, Born

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• One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.

  Michael Hudson

  America, Rolling, Argentina

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Culture

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Mean, Acting

  "Kirk Cameron's Real Life Growing Pains". Interview with Will Dawson, www1.cbn.com.

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• ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Effort, Wish

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• If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

  Jean Charest

  Home, Exercise, Finding Yourself

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