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The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption â€” and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the… — Glenn Reynolds
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying… — David Shore
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable… — Nicholas Eberstadt
Itâ€™s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebodyâ€™s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyoneâ€™s expense. — Richard Kalvar
Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good â€“ satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. Itâ€™s food that fills us up emotionally and… — Ellie Krieger
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. — Marvin Bower
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure,… — Marvin Bower
It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill… — Joshua Waitzkin
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes. — Frank Caplan
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee
A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a â€˜what is it?â€™ until you relate… — Art Smith
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she… — Jean Baker Miller
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president. — Thomas Carper
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with… — Michael K. Powell
What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great… — Laura Gilpin
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases… — June Goodfield
A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any… — Albert Low
After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense,… — Jeremy Silman
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a… — Gerald Holton

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