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• Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, People

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• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Eye, Writing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

  John B. Larson

  Careers, Two, Numbers

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• I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

  Jimmy Smits

  Commitment, Long, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

  Ron Suskind

  Years, Important, Reporters

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• By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

  Ron Suskind

  Book, Fall, Media

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• For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Discovery, Years, Belief

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• The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

  Tony Snow

  Real, Rip, Long

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• Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, Character, Dancer

  Zoe Saldana Biography (Trivia/ Quotes), TV.com, www.tv.com.

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• But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Commitment, Long

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• There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

  Laurence Tribe

  Progress, Liberty, Fit

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• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Shifting, Cost

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Different

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Used, Prodigies

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• One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Unique, Issues, Voice

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• I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

  Duncan Jones

  Careers, Long, Chance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

  Stephanie Mills

  Block, Responsibility, Cells

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• The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Creating, Trying

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

  Sight, Hands, Choices

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• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Butterfly, Self, Meditation

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• In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

  Ben Mezrich

  Book, Together, Path

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• I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

  Brit Marling

  Brain, Economics, Mathematics

  "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Long, Quality

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• The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

  Ann Macbeth

  Art, Film, Dichotomy

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