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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'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 no term to the work of a scientist.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

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

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.

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

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.