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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

Taking on short term risk can involve switching jobs, joining new groups / associations in the area, launching a personal blog, running an experiment within your existing job. These are some practical ways to inject volatility into your life, and thus some risk.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.