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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found… — Joshua Lederberg
When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of… — Unknown Author
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. — Agatha Christie
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of… — Matthieu Ricard
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at… — Ludwig von Mises
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar… — Michel de Montaigne
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and… — Kent Haruf
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own… — Laverne Cox
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. — George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual. — George C. Marshall
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our… — Ella Maillart
One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with… — Dick Cheney
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can… — Paul Auster
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his… — Ralph Ellison
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've… — Ian Holloway
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the… — Ralph Gibson
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change… — Aaron Siskind
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive,… — Jon Snow
In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. — John Lyall

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