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• It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

  Kevin Rudd

  Way, Economy, Unlikely

  "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.

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• In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.

  George Sarton

  Real, Men, Degrees

  "A History of Science". Book by George Sarton. Volume 2: "Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.", Preface, 1959.

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Waiting, Barbarians, Today

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Waiting For The Barbarians”

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• The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.

  Steven Johnson

  Mean, Dvds, Fans

  "Watching TV Makes You Smarter". www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2005.

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• (H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

  Pat Buchanan

  Law, Careers, Judging

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• Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Heart, Eye, Virginia

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1876). “Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876”, p.22

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• I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

  "Greg Graffin of Bad Religion". Interview with Joshua Chaplinsky, chuckpalahniuk.net. October 18, 2010.

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• If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Rome, Investing

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• When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Years, Europe, Saturn

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• WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Sleep, Time Zones, Differences

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• I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Writing, Helping Others

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• The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it's a valid thing. It's a valid forum and I'm not going say that they aren't valid feelings. But it's sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it's sad that it's used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

  Bryan Burrough

  Pride, People, Insult

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• I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

  Dave deBronkart

  Online

  "e-Patient Dave: How an Empowered Patient Recovered From Stage IV Cancer and Found a Higher Calling". Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 04, 2011.

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• If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religion, Guilt

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration (1978). “The Presidential campaign 1976”

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• What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Heart, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Men, Weather

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book V, Chapter I, Section 4), circa 15 BC.

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• Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ideas, Focus, Language

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• The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

  Haile Selassie

  World, May, Opinion

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Character, People

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• My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Being In Love, Talking

  "Ben Affleck: I quit drinking to be good husband". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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