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• Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

  Luis de Guindos

  Two, Growth, Employment

  "Spain faces more pain before economy recovers, warns minister" by Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2011.

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• I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

  Sondre Lerche

  Sound, Matter, Facts

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• It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

  Maynard Webb

  Long, Perception, Different

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

  Martha Wainwright

  Skills, Careers, Long

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• I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.

  Geoff Downes

  Thinking, People, Style

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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Excess, Youth

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

  Stephen Daldry

  Country, Gun, Past

  "Exclusive: Director Stephen Daldry Interview THE READER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Basketball, Numbers, Slippery Slope

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• I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Mean, Names, People

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• I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Country, Avid, Hair

  "Beauty Queen: The Evelyn Lauder Interview". Interview with Rob Haskell, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

  Franklin Raines

  Moving, Long, Individual

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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Zoologist, Species

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• He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Responsibility, Successful, Corporations

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• There's no term to the work of a scientist.

  Walter Reisch

  Scientist

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• In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Jobs, Play, Guy

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• In terms of existing, everything is equal.

  Donald Judd

  Equal

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• If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

  John W. Gardner

  Work, Mean, Responsibility

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Firsts, Quarrels

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.206

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• A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Two, Historical

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• It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Fighting, Thinking

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• Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

  Dan John

  Workout, Thinking, Long

  "Questions and Answers About Lifting. How do I prevent overtraining?". danjohn.net.

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• Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

  Charlene Li

  Loyalty, Long, Marketing

  Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff (2011). “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”, p.278, Harvard Business Press

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• ...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.

  Charles H. Kraft

  Taken, Biblical, Doctrine

  Charles H. Kraft (1996). “Anthropology for Christian Witness”

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