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

The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

The technical term for phytonutrients is polyphenols. They are substances produced by plants, a lot of them for self-defense. Twenty-five thousand different ones have been identified. Vitamins E, C, and beta-carotene are examples. Many of them are potent antioxidants, while some don't have antioxidant activity but boost our own antioxidant defense system. Others are involved in communication between cells, many affect gene expression, and others have detoxifying functions.

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 '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 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 ‘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 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 ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

To keep myself anonimys in the press is that I felt was the right thing to do, in terms of making music. It's just about letting people hear it and then deciding for themselves whether they want to find out more and discover it for themselves. Everything stems from that.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

To me the term "sexual feedom" meant freedom from having sex.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure... When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

We are certainly seeing a greater diversification of origin... it used to be that the best trained terrorist cyber facilitators were living in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or Western Europe. These days, we are seeing increasing numbers of such individuals from North Africa and what I like to term "Greater Syria" - Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, and Syria itself.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!