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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot… — Tabitha Soren
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,… — William Strunk, Jr.
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. â€œBiological evolution isâ€¦ change in the properties of populations of organisms (you… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, theyâ€™re more likely… — Paul Tough
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial… — John Ralston Saul
Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it,… — Steve Aylett
But once you publish a book, doesnâ€™t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldnâ€™t we just write books and print them… — Jonathan Evison
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from… — Robert Pape
I think itâ€™s a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories, — Sarah Polley
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words… — Oliver Burkeman
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. — Laurie Garrett
If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience… — James G. March
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate those drives is… — Daniel Amen
You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough… — Janette Rallison
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold. — Avi Rubin
Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as… — Vito Russo
There hadnâ€™t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and… — Jenny Han
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a… — Abraham Zaleznik

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