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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Whatever
State
Our
Evidence
Stubborn
Facts
Wishes
Alter
Passions
Dictates
May
Cannot
Things
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Government
Man
Justice
Will
Constraint
Instituted
Because
Without
Passions
Been
Dictates
Conform
Reason
Why
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Government
Justice
Will
Men
Constraint
Instituted
Because
Without
Passions
Been
Dictates
Conform
Reason
Why
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
Government
Family
Money
Will
Wish
Every
Spend
Dictates
Tax
After
Us
Choice
Should
Choose
Let Us
Extend
Right
Chance
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Alexander Hamilton
Love
Time
Director
Liberty
Safety
Will
National
Way
Danger
Give
Ardent
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Conduct
Dictates
After
Even
External
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony de Mello
Heart
People
Will
First
Thinking
Assume
Head
Mistakenly
Conclusion
Provide
Commands
Dictates
Done
Which
Then
Reasoning
Actually
Defend
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Life
Character
You
Integrity
Yourself
Whatever
Beneath
Spirit
Perceive
Voice
Main
Main Character
Make
Read
Another
Always
Hear
Dictates
Story
Then
Your
Agreements
Four
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Time
Sleepless
Circumstance
Poetry
Parker
Thunderstorm
Read
Without
Pass
Yeats
Heartache
Dictates
Dorothy
Little
Much
Night
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Truth
Democracy
Science
People
Must
Superstition
Learn
Principles
Go
Dictates
Going
Teachings
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Man
Animal
Temper
Rational
He
Always
Loses
His
Accordance
Dictates
Act
Reason
Who
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar
Nature
People
Money
Will
Inevitable
Human Nature
Ways
Cheat
Cheaters
Involved
Glory
Always
Dictates
Going
Human
Where
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
Ferdinand Buisson
Justice
Respect
Society
Guided
Governed
Dictates
Human
Reason
Human Society
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Grimes
You
Yourself
Everything
Way
Totally
About
Audience
Dictates
Anyone
Your
Present
Thinks
I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.
Tim Scott
Vote
Conservative
Value
First
Christian
Think
Consistent
Value System
System
Ourselves
Response
Well
Am
Question
Questions
Dictates
Then
Asking
Should
Who
Who Am I
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
Yanis Varoufakis
You
Simple
Negotiation
Enter
Possibility
Logic
Never
Conceive
Leaving
Dictates
Cannot
Preferable
Then
Even
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie
You
Liberty
Try
Will
Argument
Power
Society
Resolved
Say
Though
Response
Exactly
Ability
Exactly What
Outside
Never
He
Step
Come
Dictates
Authoritarian
Any
May
Anybody
After
Interested
Even
Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
Adam Green
You
Matter
Fans
Worldwide
Project
Critically
Tickets
How
Sell
Won
Dictates
Going
Wheel
Movie
Happen
Movies
Hollywood
Really
Next
Your
Many
Each
Roulette
Awards
Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
Alex Smith
Time
You
Guard
Defense
Out
Point
Point Guard
Football
Most
Call
Dictates
Trying
Goes
Getting
Just
Where
Really
Based
Play
You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
Anthony Rizzo
You
Job
Situation
Every
Must
Results
Obviously
Deal
Dictates
Want
Your
Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.
Bill Richardson
Environmental
Politics
Science
Natural
Secondly
Collaboration
Rather
Between
Industry
Policy
Disclosure
Chemicals
Dictates
Than
Natural Gas
Full
Used
Groups
Gas
Third
The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
Chuck Todd
Best
Politicians
Strategy
Run
Tries
Embrace
Something
Simply
Most
Attributes
Because
Dictates
Traits
Candidate
While
Turning
Successful
Who
Many
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
David Lloyd
Love
Time
People
Personality
Feedback
Sit
Drawing
Some
Most
Talking
Because
Am
Dictates
Getting
Going
Just
Artists
Conventions
Board
Used
Actually
Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.
David Mixner
Simple
Will
Economics
Market
Complex
Cost
More
Tailored
Invest
Generate
Venture
Return
Traditional
Dollars
Targeted
Dictates
Getting
Expensive
Products
Billion
Billion Dollars
Companies
Even
Sufficient
Pharmaceutical
Funds
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Dayananda Saraswati
Truth
Good
Wise
Happy
Others
Virtue
Tries
He
Make
Always
Dictates
Speaks
Who
Acts
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
Didier Sornette
Future
Facebook
Will
Value
Evolve
Economic
Through
Economic Theory
How
Years
Dictates
Estimate
Next
View
Theory
User
Company
Growth
Present
Profits
Basically
Need
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
Dominic Monaghan
Happiness
Work
Food
You
Quality
Amazing
Care
Job
Films
Willingness
Never
Taken
Smaller
Almost
Hotel
Hotel Room
Budgets
Limitless
Go
Trailers
Dictates
Than
Where
Bigger
Room
Then
Worked
Things
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