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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Violence

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

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• Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.

  Jessica Alba

  Men, Mirrors, Needs

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• I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Lows, Persons

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Fire, World

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• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Views, Wings

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• When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

  Brad Pitt

  Opportunity, Careers, Ideas

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Doe, Guarantees, Disarmament

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• Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Needs, Fit

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.

  Wendy Raquel Robinson

  Hair, Easy, Lows

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• Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Heart, Car, Faces

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• Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Law, Institutions

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• When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.

  Josh Peck

  Athlete, Dancer, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

  Fred Brooks

  Delay, Execution, Building

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• Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Engineering, Environmental

  "Spearing Sacred Cows" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2011.

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• Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Law, Perfect

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• Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Progress, Made, Armament

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• A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Law, Motorcycle

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• There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

  Betty Buckley

  Singers, Corny

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

  Chris Brown

  Inspirational, Basketball, Girl

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• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Guy, High Maintenance, Knows

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• The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

  Richard Cobden

  Freedom, Office, Progress

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  Wietse Venema

  Business, Effort, Software

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• I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.

  Jeremy London

  Chicks, Deals, I Can

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• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Southern, Slavery

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