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The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know the news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength. When you can draw that many people, you've got something going. You don't have to worry if the guys in suits are going to put it on the front page or not.

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

There's a definite connection in terms of objects at hand - dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very much enamored with popular imagery, and popular imagery was of course available and at hand. And land art was also using what was at hand.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.