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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  Walt Disney

  Appreciation, Communication, Mean

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  Mark Haddon

  Cities, Oxford, Space

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• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Knights, Groups, Use

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, California, Leaving

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

  Paula Creamer

  Home, Golf, Practice

  "Q&A With LPGA Star Paula Creamer". Bleacher Report interview, bleacherreport.com.

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• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Communication, Mean, Ideas

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• Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Today, Process

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Educational, Creating, Focus

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• Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Government, Community, Needs

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Peers, Patterns

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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• The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

  John Cleese

  Play, People, Creative

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• Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

  Carter Burwell

  Matter, Towns, Los Angeles

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• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Memories, Magic

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Next, Psychological, Wanted

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

  Betty Friedan

  School, College, Government

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel

  Kim Harrison

  Dog, Couple, Memories

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• Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Children, Ambition

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Prejudice, Easy

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

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• We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

  Linford Christie

  Country, Stars, Athlete

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make people's lives very rich. If the commune owns the money, the commune can give you all the facilities that you need, all the education, all creative dimensions of life.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Hands, People

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• There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Doors, Mosques, Rooms

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• Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Wonderful

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Desire, Technique, Watches

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