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As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.

~Becky Sauerbrunn

Topics: Against Cover Defender Defending Determines Forward Ground Her How How Much Me Movement Much Up

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The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Absolutely Against British Central Deprivation Happened Impact Imperialism India Injustice Outcome Poverty Rule Story Them Which Women

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The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Against Biology Evolutionary Me Our Reward Technology Thing Upsets Us Use Uses Which Ubiquitous

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Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Against Argument Being Could Everything Frivolous Generous Give Humour Laugh Made Me Often Powerful Quite Serious Subversive Suppose Thing Think Tool Very Well World

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The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.

~Beji Caid Essebsi

Topics: Against Bow Out People Phenomenon Stay Terrorism United Until Will Wipe

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I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

~Bella Thorne

Topics: About Against Dreams Everything Experience Having Life Living Magical Most My Life Odds Struggled Think Truly I Think

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All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Against Collateral Federal Federal Reserve Loans Make Reserve

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The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Actions Against Authorities Banks Bear Central Consequences Excessive Full Infer Investors Long Long Run Never Other Panic Risk-Taking Run Short Stability Stabilize Taken Those Will Work

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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

~Ben Carson

Topics: Against Decided Did Discovered First Medical Medical School Psychiatrist Psychiatrists Reality School Tv Wanted

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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

~Ben Carson

Topics: Against Being Black Could Cruel Decided Easily Everything Life Me Meant Stacked

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