Appropriate Quotes
788 quotes by 669 authors
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their…
— Christopher Lasch
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...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered…
— Mark Helprin
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In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more…
— Denise Caruso
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My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt…
— Alex Webb
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We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that…
— Hal Abelson
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Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
— Unknown Author
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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath,"…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.
— Savielly Tartakower
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You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
— Theodore Parker
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And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic…
— Lucas Papademos
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I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to personally devote oneself…
— Chuck Feeney
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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs…
— Unknown Author
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Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.
— Mark Zandi
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The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off
— John Motson
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The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices. Essentially, the "magic…
— Bruce Miller
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Pearls are always appropriate.
— Jackie Kennedy
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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
— Albert Hadley
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