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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Needs, Errands, Fool

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Growing, Levels

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• I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Believe, Tools

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

  Peter Stone

  Laughing, Interesting, Trouble

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• This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

  Phyllis Diller

  Men, Balls, Bowling

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• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Answers, May, Way

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• Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mystery, Organized, Exceed

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• Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy.

  Vassily Ivanchuk

  Strong, Moving, Games

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Play, Trying, Chess

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• Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

  Jan Egeland

  People, Relief, Needs

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• Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Length, Just Live, Wells

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• Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.

  Roy Scheider

  Believe, Views, Sharks

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• First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

  Frank Sartor

  Running, Land, Firsts

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.

  Stanley Fish

  Writing, Looks, World

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

  Jonathan Raban

  Unique, Self, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Needs, Benefits

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• I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

  Walter Cronkite

  Loyalty, Party, Independent

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• The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.

  Steven Hall

  Issues, Giving, Environmental

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• Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, Speak, Generalities

  Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

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• Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city
  5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Smart, New Orleans, Sea

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• These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge.  The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components.  That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.

  Tarleton Gillespie

  Common Sense, Experts, Needs

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• I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

  Bill Nye

  Law, Three, Ham

  YouTube Chanel "Answers in Genesis"/"Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD (Official)", www.youtube.com. February 4, 2014.

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• One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

  Karen MacNeil

  Reading, Wine, Two

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