If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Related This is more economic than political. They needed to expand, and we were the only place they could g... COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move th... JOHN DAVIS There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, ... ELIAS CANETTI It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of lif... HAVELOCK ELLIS Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try t... ALEXANDER COCKBURN These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al... ALICE MOORE There are incentives for any state to exaggerate an external threat. If people feel insecure and hav... DANIEL PINKSTON Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism present... CARROLL QUIGLEY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest th... ABHIJIT NASKAR It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would o... JULIE ANDREWS It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there wer... ASA GRAY It can be an adventure. Last year, when we were up there, we got back to the hotel and it was around... JEFF DEHAVEN They were tough conditions up there. It was pretty bouncy, the snow was aggressive and the flat ligh... BODE MILLER ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e... MARC LEVY I thought they were going to call it incomplete, it did kind of hit the ground. It really could have... BEN TROUPE There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's search... WHIT STILLMAN If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty tha... MICHAEL SPECTER There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissi... DENIS HAYES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succ... ROBERT L. HEILBRONER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. TIMMOTHY RADMAN The apathy will only be broken by some striking economic or political news. HECTOR PEREZ I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The only time the commissioner can do that is when there is a substantial health and safety threat. ... ALLEN GILBERT Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an extern... LAURA PEDERSEN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So ... ANDY WARHOL It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could neve... HAVELOCK ELLIS Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating thr... ROBERT ZUBRIN It's great to be tested in different conditions and we all know the ball turns in India. But there w... RICKY PONTING It's great to be tested in different conditions and we all know the ball turns in India. But there w... RICKY PONTING This is not a laughing matter. It's serious and we follow up on it very hard. Even when there turns ... DOUG BENGTSON If properly implemented, and with sufficiently broad participation by patent-holders, this approach ... ALLONN E. LEVY There is always hope. Because we really don't know what conditions they are in, there could be pocke... JUAN REBOLLEDO Our old shop flooded when it rained. As long as it stays where it's supposed to go, we'll be all rig... CRAIG BARANOUSKI As long as we can continue to find voids under the pile, it means that there could be somebody still... BOB ROPER What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all t... ROALD DAHL Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is no... CHARLES M. SCHWAB There are cartridges there which pose a threat to firefighters, who cannot complete the search for b... ANTONIO RIVERO They (...) call what I have an invisible illness, but I often wonder if they're really looking. Beyo... LOUISE GORNALL We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew. DAVE ADAMS It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functiona... JOSE SARAMAGO To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels... GARY MONK Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT They respond very aggressively when they perceive a threat that could be meaningful, ROGER MCNAMEE But be aware that there are some concerns if political unrest continues, it could impact the ratings... DAVID MARSHALL The situation is extremely grave. ... If it gets out of northwest Ohio, the front will be too big an... DAN HERMS Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is... LEONARD COHEN The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were a... NENIA CAMPBELL Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by play... CHARLES PLATT I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look... MARGARET CHO She wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vam... CASSANDRA CLARE Coming from an area where there is harsh winter conditions, my strong feeling is that an election sh... PAT MARTIN There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It ... GRAHAM COXON So it can be political unacceptable even if the tax loss isn't that great. This is political and ide... DAVID PERRY We have a whole new era. Individuals' access to technology could pose a privacy threat to those arou... LILLIE CONEY [Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe.] If there were an ad for the job, it would be... MARK TUSHNET One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, nob... TERRY PRATCHETT It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could th... REGINA SPEKTOR And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something... BRUCE NAUMAN The threat conditions in Aden were better than elsewhere, ANTHONY ZINNI A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one ... ALAN DERSHOWITZ No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. OSCAR WILDE If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it... DAPHNE DU MAURIER It could be just a lucky shot. Or it could be that they have invested in a training program, and the... GENJOHN KEANE Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. J.K. ROWLING This means even if the environmental impact study finds that this project will be to the detriment o... LIZ MCDAID Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? DON WILLIAMS, JR Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? DON WILLIAMS JR If the dam were to fail, it definitely would pose a threat to the people in the downstream areas. Th... MARK OGDEN That did it right there. They were hanging around, but, when we started on them right there, it put ... DEJUAN BLAIR My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation... NATALIE ZEA I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn... BLAIR UNDERWOOD Inflation is still a threat when U.S. economic growth is relatively strong. It will weigh down Treas... MASAYUKI SENDA I'd be really surprised if it turns out to be anything other than that, FRANK RIZZO A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like... BONNIE RAITT One of the most remarkable of man's characteristics is his capacity for becoming used to conditions ... F. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any... GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessar... CAROLINA CODY ALDAZ Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly... JULIE MCELWAIN The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i... ETHEL KENNEDY We're still looking at the situation. If it turns out that that there was a crime, we will divert it... DONALD WONG The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it w... ALEC WILKINSON Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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