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• . . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Adequacy, Grammar, Meetings

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• Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Taken, Men

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Believe, House

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Player, Class, Doubt

  "Zidane: My biggest regret was not playing with Scholes". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

  George Preston Marshall

  Stars, Player, Names

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Symptoms

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• Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

  John C. Bogle

  Investing, Fund, Managers

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Historical, Bears, Foundation

  Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Air, Sirens

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• Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.

  Robin Sharma

  Commitment, Profound, Excellence

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• I actually think the debate is a good idea because if internationally somehow we can bring home to Americans that their decision about who they select as their candidate has international implications then by all means we should.

  Kit Malthouse

  Mean, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Trouble, Fame, Bigs

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• Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Husband, Islamic, Law

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

  Stephen Elop

  Smartphones, Brands

  "Microsoft Won’t Brand Its Own Phones ‘Microsoft Mobile’ — Nor Use Nokia’s Name For Long". techcrunch.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US) Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil liberties....(:) the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society and its constitutional underpinnings.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Essence, Choices

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• If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

  Brad Leithauser

  Peculiar, Bishops, Might

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• A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

  Burton Malkiel

  Experts, Monkeys, Pages

  Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Moving, Procrastination, Long

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• While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Friendship, People, Choices

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Doe, Fruit

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• As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Principles, May

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• Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

  Ari Kiev

  Success, Taken, People

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• I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Classic, David Thoreau, Emily

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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