Appropriate Quotes - Page 28

• No law is quite appropriate for all.

  Livy

  Law

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• I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Thinking, Clarity

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. November 21, 2010.

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• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  Caleb Carr

  Believe, Mountain, Misery

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• I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

  Ben Bernanke

  Responsibility, Thinking, Details

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• Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

  Kathleen Battle

  Spiritual, Two, People

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• Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

  Ulrich Beck

  Government, Democracy, Guarantees

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• I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

  Alan Autry

  Order, Goal, Support

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

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• I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

  Jack Abramoff

  Support, Trying, Venture

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• The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

  Cary Elwes

  Unique, Thinking, Three

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• The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Design, Heavyweights, Fleeing

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.182, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

  Tertullian

  Inspirational, Prayer, Practice

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• I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

  Richard Dooling

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  Rachel Kushner

  Doe, Fiction, Use

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• One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

  Henry Kravis

  Creativity, Matter, Fields

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• There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

  Vinod Khosla

  Country, Technology, Wind

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• I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

  Max Levchin

  Iphone, Phones, Growth

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Soul, Church

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Children, Taken, Independent

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• I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

  Danny Pintauro

  Struggle, Heart, Trying

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• Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Thinking, Important, Messages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

  Curtis Stone

  Vegetables, Balance, Important

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• Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

  John Boehner

  Country, Thinking, People

  "John McCain Disagrees With John Boehner: Mitt Romney Was Fine To Criticize Obama On Russia" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

  Jeremy Sumpter

  People, Laughing, Scene

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