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• Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

  Sam Donaldson

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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• Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Hunger, Biotech, Crops

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• Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Wages, Bigger, Effects

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• A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Men, Doe

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• If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Sky, Best Effort

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• Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Weakness, Should

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• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Ideas, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

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• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, America, Order

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter V, 1835.

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Player, Men

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  Paul Davies

  Teenager, Night, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

  Adolf Hitler

  Germany, Jew

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• If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Fit, Obligation, Company

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

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• The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Imagination, Television, Tvs

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.

  Seth Shostak

  Air, People, House

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• If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Ease, Vain

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• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Self, Mind

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• Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

  John Milton

  Children, Reading, Book

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

  Hilarie Burton

  Opportunity, Tree, Hills

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Painting, Take Me

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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