Particular Quotes - Page 36

• Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

  Ted Gup

  Party, Succeed, Bulls

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

  Amanda Ripley

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Dirty, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Agendas, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Thinking, Simple

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

  Vito Acconci

  Hands, Space, Decision

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Law, Justice, Contentment

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• We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide which focused each individual's creative instinct on a problem to be solved - how to interpret a particular system of notation using one's own musical background and attitudes.

  John Tilbury

  Attitude, Creative, Musical

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• In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Heart, Character

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• I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Mets, Superiors

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• We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fate, Destiny, Path

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• People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Kids, Pride

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

  Rita Moreno

  Perseverance, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Chicago, Kind

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.

  Patricia Leavy

  Writing, Use, Research

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• Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Sunset, Purpose

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• There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

  Auberon Waugh

  Spring, Peaceful, Mind

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• [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Imperfection, Perception

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• Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Past

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.18, SPCK

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• Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Perfect, Able, Remember

  Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1989). “Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle”

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• The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Important, Knows

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Heart, People

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• Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Dancing, Singing

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• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Thinking, Innovation

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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