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• Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

  Lubov Azria

  Style, Skirts, Classic

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• Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Strong, Men

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• Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

  Li Peng

  Country, Community, Political

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• The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

  Darrell Huff

  Honesty, Mean, Data

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• I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

  Paul Hawken

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Optimism, Troops, Optimist

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• Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Attitude, Parent

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• Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

  Gary Pruitt

  Views, December, Advertising

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• In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, New York, Couple

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Small Parts, Effects

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Trying, Moments

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• If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

  Christian Lacroix

  Fashion, Design, Following

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• The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.

  Kurt Bills

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Determined, Impossible, Happenings

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Events, Particular

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• People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Taken, Clothes

  "Kelly Cutrone: Fashion Week's Behind the Scenes Superstar". Interview with Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2010.

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• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Purple, People

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Society Has a Hyper-Emphasis On Thin and That Trend Comes From the Consumers’" by Nika Mavrody, www.thefashionspot.com. July 22nd, 2013.

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• I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Feel Good, Feels, I Feel Good

  "Kristin Cavallari: Life After The Hills". Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.

  Jane Asher

  Fashion, Clothes, Runway

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• Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

  Philip M. Condit

  Two, Quarters

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• The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

  Piers Corbyn

  Moving, Years, Lasts

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• It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

  Richard Codey

  Country, Responsibility, Epidemics

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• Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

  Scott D. Cook

  Technology, Revolution, Made

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• Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

  Alan Dundes

  Taken, Past, Trying

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