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• Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

  Will Rogers

  Character, Watches, Politics

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Powerful, Dark, Mad

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• My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

  Allison Williams

  Dad, Thinking, Hbo

  "A Racy Big Break for Brian Williams' Daughter" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Light, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Successful, Opportunity

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• I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  People, Groups, Individual

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• You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.

  Curtis Jackson

  Challenges, Style, Training

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• What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Mistake, Tasks, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

  Judith Martin

  Wall, People, Expectations

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

  Gary W. Keller

  Tasks, Cost, Realizing

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• Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Light, Doors

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• The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

  Gary W. Keller

  People, Giving, Attention

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• Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

  Prince Charles

  Air, Tree, World

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• Although I'm known for my long, colorful locs, I still don't take my hair too seriously. I experiment a lot, dyeing it and constantly switching styles to grab attention. My hair is one of my best accessories and changing it helps express who I am.

  Ledisi

  Who I Am, Hair, Long

  "Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Solange Cover ESSENCE's May Beauty Issue". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. Apil 1, 2014.

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• Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

  Questlove

  Perfection, Quality, Humans

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• We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Simple, Player

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• There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching it on yourself. No problem, as targets of bullying are picked on for their competence and abilities.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Tunnels, Light

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• Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

  Prince Charles

  Science, Simple, Air

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• What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

  Frank J. Prial

  Wine, Southern Italy, Tea

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Data, Sides, Global Warming

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• That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake.

  Paul Volcker

  Mistake, Gold, Dollars

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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

  John Guillebaud

  Children, Order, Light

  " The Green War on Children" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 08, 2010.

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