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• I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

  Jon Postel

  Names, Space, Essentials

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• They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

  Robert Toombs

  Justice, Special, Principles

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.5

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• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  Vernor Vinge

  Humanity, Fractions, Elites

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Presentation at VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 1993.

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• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Government, Land

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• A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

  Ernst Mach

  Different, Movement, Vivid

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

  John McAfee

  Common, Environment, Program

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• In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

  Lytton Strachey

  Triumph, Peculiar, Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Different

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• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  William H. Seward

  Ocean, Virginia, United States

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• I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

  Brian Eno

  Technology, Computer, Driven

  "The Revenge of the Intuitive". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  John Sayles

  Night, Should Have, People

  "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

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• That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

  Bill Joy

  Fate, Doom

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• The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

  Jiang Zemin

  Believe, Science, Rights

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• Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

  Corrine Brown

  States

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• For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Country, Heart, Men

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• The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

  Jon Postel

  Running, Want, Fairs

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• The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Temptation, Retreat

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• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Inspiration, Principles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Imagination, Feels, Catastrophe

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Believe, Government, Eminent Domain

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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• War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Suffering, Exertion

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• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

  Jon Postel

  Nice, Space, Names

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