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anathema
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist. Tim Jackson
anathema assume basketball difficult players
Why is it so difficult to assume that basketball players may not need to use steroids? That it's anathema to what they do? Billy Hunter
anathema diverse government hierarchy population tribes
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. Iqbal Quadir
anathema ask conscious directing fiction freedom injury might otherwise people serious
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. Martin Amis
anathema life somebody unreal
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. Zadie Smith
anathema appear carried genocide heads measures military placed pretext
As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out, Slobodan Milosevic
anathema barack bring change concept cost disaster georgia mate maybe might millions principles rise running sam southern state total work
Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to the concept of change that has stirred millions to rise and work for Barack Obama. Sam Nunn would be a disaster as a running mate and a total anathema to millions of Americans. David Mixner
anathema expect increasing milestones people stand violence voting
As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists, ... They can't stand elections. The thought of people voting is anathema to them. George W. Bush
anathema based depending design determine disease doctors exploits last multiple ongoing patient potential responding results standard study treatment trials using
Doctors want to be able to design trials to look at multiple potential treatment combinations and use biomarkers to determine who is responding to what medication. At the end of the day, when they enroll the last patient in the study they want to be able to treat that patient optimally depending on the patient's disease characteristics. Using a Bayesian approach, the trial design exploits the results as the trial is ongoing and adapts based on these interim results. That kind of thing is an anathema in the standard approach.
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
notion people
People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. Michelle Branch
notion paid politics
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is. Nicholas Haslam
notions
We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be, John Doe
notion perhaps
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid. Chris Eigeman
notion seriously
I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.
notion exaggerated knows
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. Albert Camus
notion open solitary source teaching
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
notion ought
We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.
notion public supported therefore work
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence. Ha-Joon Chang
stands
She just stands there -- like some employees.
stands
There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon. Faith Hunter
stands
The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union. Lee Whitnum
stands
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
stands style work
For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.
stands
He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.
stands
I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture. Robert Mueller
stands tide time wait woman
Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. Robert Frost
stands
Right now that's where it stands to be.