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• Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

  Kyle E. McSlarrow

  Reality, Years, Lasts

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• To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Pain, Passion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2155, Library of Alexandria

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• Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Years, Long

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Senior, Retirement, Political

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• When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Senior, Retirement, Sick

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• Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Benefits, Half

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• For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, Reason, Social

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• Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.

  Mazie Hirono

  Senior, Mother, Retirement

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

  Andre Breton

  Knowing, Ifs, Amount

  "Nadja". Book by André Breton, 1928.

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• The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

  Steve Rivkin

  Business, World, Predictions

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• The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

  Philippe Halsman

  Special, Technique, Photographer

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• What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?

  George Frideric Handel

  Grace, Church, Wonderful

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• A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.

  Stella McCartney

  Sexy, Attitude, Black

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• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Winter

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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• A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Success, Winning, Common Sense

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• As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

  Greg Walden

  Fire, Ecosystems, Long

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• You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Memories, Twilight

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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• Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.

  Alexander Guchkov

  Country, Strong, War

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• Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Confusing, Emotion

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Olympos”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Statistics, Eyeballs

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• I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

  Busta Rhymes

  Opportunity, Rely Upon, Support Systems

  "POP QUIZ -- Q & A With Busta Rhymes". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 14, 1997.

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