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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Donna Tartt

Love Alive Characters Minor Particular Most Tradition Dickens Where Even Twitching

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. Edward Tufte

Become Minor Celebrity Curious Consequence

We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then. Ehud Olmert

Reality State Neighborhoods Corrections Arab Must Minor Give Since Return Territory Prior Israel Up Dictated Then Created Jerusalem Core

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. Francis Crick

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail. Fred Ehrsam

Internet Will Sense Every Startups Minor Some Fail Failures Make Surprised Huge Hit Models Successes Token Early

I think the root of minor problems is separation from a belief system of interconnectedness and compassion and oneness, so when we multiply that over and over again, it turns into lies and chaos and terrorism. Gabrielle Bernstein

Terrorism Problems Compassion Separation Think Chaos System Lies Minor Oneness Over Interconnectedness Again Root Turns Belief Multiply

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard

Life World Minor Thus Child Even Event

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me. Geoff Dyer

Music Me Seriously Reading Books Musical Way Minor About Compromised Major Understand Any Meaningless Theory Serious

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. Geoff Mulgan

Future Time Chasing Picture Mouth Live Society Back Crises Minor Civil Rarely Civil Society New Look Most Juggling Perpetual Hand Contracts Get After Bigger Bigger Picture Short-Term Much Organisations Stand Many Even Prepared Treadmill Funding

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of. Hannibal Buress

Me People Have Fun Experiment Other Out Characters Minor Something Gives Bounce Weird Stuff Come Hour Like React Make Makes Surprise Off Done Just Used Fun Event

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins. Hans Fischer

Patient Minor Cases Quantities Disease Large

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. Helmut Jahn

Building Minor Never Major Looked Being Suburban Urban

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces. Howard Staunton

Value Three Minor Piece Pieces Five May Pawn Two Fraction

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. Howard Staunton

Queen Bishop Minor Knight Pieces

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it. Ian MacKaye

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. James Donald

People Crimes Significant Minor More Emotionally Were Left North Committed Regime Against Far Us Vietnamese Rouge Compared

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. James S. Coleman

Achievement Eyes Giving Other Teenagers Focused Prestige Status Minor Adolescent Data Studies Clear Scholastic Importance Most Around Interests

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. Jane Gardam

Life Believe Characters One Thing Minor About Got Fiction Really Thing

We are not a minor power in the Middle East; we are a significant player. Jeremy Hunt

Power East Significant Minor Middle Middle East Player

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. Jim Evans

Work Problems Face Constant Minor Minor League League Like Umpires Handle Expected Improvement Situations Biggest Inability Show Plate Each Season Level Players Inconsistent Two

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