Acronyms Quotes

• FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Fear, Real, Language

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• The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

  Elon Musk

  Hurt, Communication, Keys

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• JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

  Catherine Bell

  Military, Judging, Advocating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Law, Ideas

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• Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

  Paul Vixie

  Thinking, Obscure, Your Mom

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• I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Aquarius, Age, Growing

  Roy Peter Clark (2010). “The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Cutting, Government, May

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• Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

  Milton Friedman

  Agency, Order, Three

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• There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

  Paul Boutin

  Three, Letters

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• GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

  Kim Coles

  Gratitude, Believe, Self

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

  Andy Grove

  People, Computer, Industry

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• Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Design

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• SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Acquisition, Common

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• brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wow, Saved

  Twitter post from Aug 21, 2009

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• What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

  Paul Boutin

  Thinking, Three, Letters

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• TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

  Dov Davidoff

  Television, Tvs, Strange

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 21, 2011

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• if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Children, Rvs, Bmw

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.9, Anchor

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• Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

  Helen Zille

  Country, Writing, Challenges

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• The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Simple, Emotional

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• Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Cells, Walking Away

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• Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .

  Bob Dornan

  Gay, Use, Sexuality

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• I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

  Steven Rattner

  Jobs, Pieces, Catchy

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• Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real.

  Wayne Dyer

  Faith, Real, Evidence

  Wayne W. Dyer (2008). “Your Ultimate Calling”, p.84, Hay House, Inc

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