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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a… — James Surowiecki
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly… — Joss Whedon
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye… — Sherman Alexie
Iâ€™ll make Goyle do lines, itâ€™ll kill him, he hates writing,â€ said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyleâ€™s low grunt and, screwing up… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of… — Leo Tolstoy
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless… — Sue Monk Kidd
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to… — Albert Einstein
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly… — John Ashbery
Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You… — Justina Chen
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell… — Sarah Dessen
Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead… — Haruki Murakami
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed… — Frank Beddor
He grinned when I didn't protest, and lowered his mouth toward mine. The first touch was just that - a touch. A teasing, tempting softness.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth… — Stephen R. Lawhead
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know… — Raymond Chandler
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and… — Susan Sontag
Ah, Evie,â€ she heard him say softly, â€œI must have a heart, after allâ€¦because right now it aches like the devil.â€ â€œOnly your heart?â€ she… — Lisa Kleypas
He put the book down. â€œAs you wish.â€ He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he… — Ilona Andrews

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