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• History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

  Lord Acton

  Controversy, Arbiter, Monarchs

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• According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

  Robert De Niro

  Funny, Sexy, Grateful

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• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Phones, Focus

  Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.

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• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

  Michel de Certeau

  Real, Media, Opposites

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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  It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

  Harvey Milk

  Inspiring, Gay, Equality

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophy, Hook, Existence

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• A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Kids, Parent, Networking

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• Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Country, Littles

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

  Dave Barry

  School, Ignorance, Men

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

  Plato

  Plato, Reality, Giving

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• It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Tasks, Done, Performing

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• Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.

  Ricardo Semler

  Morning, Organization, People

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• Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Balance, Influence, Easy

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• One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Wife, Statistics, Found

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• When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

  Joseph Addison

  Mercy Of God, Wonder Love, Views

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.200

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• BJP is a political party with a difference that aims at good governance. This is proved by the fact that three of the five Chief Ministers according to a recent NDTV survey/poll are from BJP-ruled states.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Bjp, Differences

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• A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Hands, Wife

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• Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
  Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
  With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
  And wander'd in the solitary shade.
  The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
  Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Shade, Lasts

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.255

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• Recent surveys show 3 out of 10 men have a problem with premature ejaculation. The rest just didn't really think it was a problem!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Mock the Week". Game-Show, m.imdb.com.

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• They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Night, Men

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.37, Zondervan

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• The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Data, Income, Belief

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Believe, Hard Times

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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• After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.

  Chris Hayes

  Eye, Blood, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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