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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it… — Henry James
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not… — Annie Lennox
With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have… — Laura Linney
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we… — Simon Mainwaring
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out… — Matthew McConaughey
There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate. — Danica McKellar
Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering… — Kevin Mitnick
There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. — Unknown Author
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might… — Albert J. Nock
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. — Henry Paulson
There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious. — Katy Perry
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity,… — David Rockefeller
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always… — Mike Royko
Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often. — Donald Rumsfeld
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. — Jean-Paul Sartre
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against… — Bill Shuster
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we… — Sonia Sotomayor

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