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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. Franklin P. Adams | top
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Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. Rudolf Arnheim | top
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Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. Thomas Arnold | top
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I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. Dave Brubeck | top
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In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis. Robert Casey | top
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre. Christopher Eccleston | top
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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. Richard Le Gallienne | top
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I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him. Mike Gordon | top
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James Gunn | top
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The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. Rutherford B. Hayes | top
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. Charles Hermite | top
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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. Gerald Jampolsky | top
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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. Jim Jarmusch | top
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. Lactantius | top
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation. Gary Miller | top
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. Robert Morgan | top
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. C. Northcote Parkinson | top
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. Marcus Fabius Quintilian | top
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. Samuel Richardson | top
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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. Herbert Simon | top
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Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly. Ellen Tauscher | top
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville | top
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light. Damon Wayans | top
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We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. George Weinberg | top
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I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. Roberta Williams | top
