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I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Believe Conscious Demands Environmentally Event Every Got Like New Our Recycle Think Word Words Would I Think

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

~Ernst Fischer

Topics: Aim Antidote Bosses Concentration Demands Disaster Distraction Film Film And Television Mass Mass Media Maximum Media Minds Off Offer Our Press Radio Succeed Taking Television Thus

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Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Attacking Beyond Charter Comfort Comfort Zone Deck Demands Disadvantaged Hands High High Quality Meet Move Must Options Other Our Parents Quality Requires School Sector Segregation Serving Students Traditional Who Zone

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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: Achieve Age Because Behind Bureaucrats Closed Closed Doors Demands Diplomacy Done Doors Element Government Hard Increasingly May Open Perhaps Should Subject U.s. Government Whenever Works

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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

~Fede Alvarez

Topics: About Away Bad Because Dead Demands Evil Family Films God Great Horror Horror Films Just Just Because Lot Make Market Other Right Right Away Sequels Thank Thank God Think Thinks Way You

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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Become Breeds Contented Decide Demands Eventually Form Mild Must Often Others Paranoia Rich Share Themselves Tiresome Tribe Wealth

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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Brought Computers Cost Demands Enormous Everyday Jobs Life Necessary Office Particularly Per Person Productivity Question Up Whether Which

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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: After Belief Common Common Sense Contemporary Culture Demands Dispense Fluffy Illusion Might Our Pretending Requires Sense Systematic Thoroughly Well While You

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Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

~Francois Hollande

Topics: Before Country Demands Deserves Devotion Engage Exemplary France Give Job Led Myself Our Post Republican Respect Responsibilities Salute Serve Understand Who Years You

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Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

~Frank Gaffney

Topics: Accommodate Administration Along Council Demands Ever Example Expression For Example Freedom Freedom Of Expression Human Human Rights Lest Lines Muslims Nations Obama Obama Administration Offend Office Resolution Rights Since Sought Stoke Taking Those United United Nations Violence

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