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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose.

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.

The line of 'Make America great again,' the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody's using it, they are all loving it. I don't know I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.