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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. Edwin Booth | top
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. Yancy Butler | top
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. Alexander Chase | top
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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things. Linford Christie | top
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. Jim Clyburn | top
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I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do. Jonathan Demme | top
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban | top
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. Manfred Eigen | top
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When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. Lukas Foss | top
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Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution. Tipper Gore | top
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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. Juan Goytisolo | top
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Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. Raul Grijalva | top
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. Abbie Hoffman | top
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Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." Henrik Ibsen | top
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There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. Ernest Istook | top
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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. Muhammad Ali Jinnah | top
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Toni Morrison | top
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As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. Janet Napolitano | top
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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. Paul Nurse | top
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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people. Bob Odenkirk | top
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. Edith Piaf | top
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. George A. Sheehan | top
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. Studs Terkel | top
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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear. Paul Weyrich | top
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I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia. Connie Willis | top
