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• Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Marriage, Men, Married

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.29

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• All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Character, Two

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• Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Kids, Needs

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• Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying. It's an exhausting experience and, even 18 years after its release (as I write this review), few films have matched it within the science fiction genre for sheer white-knuckle exhilaration.

  James Berardinelli

  Writing, White, Years

  "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (United States, 1991)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

  John Heilpern

  Life And Love, Character, Intelligent

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• The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Apre'  s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e  tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Doubt, Life Is, States

  1788 Paul et Virginie.

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• But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

  Warwick Davis

  Book, Reading, Character

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

  Horace Mann

  Errors, Self, Rejoice

  Horace Mann (1854). “Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon. Horace Mann: With Other Proceedings”, p.56

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• Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Thinking, Technology

  Alan Lightman (2005). “A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit”, p.115, Vintage

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• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mold, Interest, Wanted

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• Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

  Don DeLillo

  Technique, Agents, Kind

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Health, Doctors

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• The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Intellectual, Horizon

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Jeff Miller

  Years, Presidential, Political

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• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  Barbara Deming

  Believe, Names, Balance

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beach, Attitude, Gun

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.178, Crown Forum

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• Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

  Marc Cooper

  Real, Party, Light

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• There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.

  Carolyn Hax

  Stress, Thinking, Priorities

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Population, Cost

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• Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
  And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
  With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
  To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Sleep, Eye

  'Peace' (1914)

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• The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Anchors, Mars

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Long, Unions, Corporations

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• One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Two, Creative

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