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Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated… — Marjorie Garber
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, — Eduardo J. Padron
Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're… — Rolf Potts
For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the… — Rolf Potts
There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Donâ€™t think in terms… — Richard Dennis
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought… — Lucy Grealy
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if they… — Ken Bates
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of… — William E. Rees
In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed. — Masahiro Sakurai
You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't… — DMX
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and… — Alec Wilkinson
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and… — Joel Beeke
Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the… — Ibn Taymiyyah
In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the… — Mellody Hobson
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I… — Barbara Kruger
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without… — Cindy Sherman
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. — Diane Lane

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