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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. Cecil Beaton

Result Out Gum London Inspection Device Principle Box Mixing Chewing Chewing Gum Close Turned

The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on - in ensemble as well as solo sections - the mood of a jazz soloist. I mean that principle of kinetic improvisation that keeps a jazz solo building. Cecil Taylor

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on. Charles Stross

Work Situation Humour Background Response Tend Protagonist Principle Matching Foreground Being Inappropriate Much Cognitive

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration. Chiang Kai-shek

War Government Time Food Important Administration Both Supplies Principle Equity Than Essential Acquisition Less Fundamental Fundamental Principle Applicable Conscription Phases

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. Chris Matthews

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working. Chris Squire

Life Great You New Things Great Believer Our Way Ourselves Only New Well Principle Audience Always Been Order Interesting Really Working Producing Keep Believer Things

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well. Chuck Norris

Positive Life Me Mind Made My Life Long Meet Frame Project Those Strive Share Well Principle Cultivate Served

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. Clara Zetkin

Class Proletarian Demand Principle Making Sake Interests

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it. Craig Mazin

Best You Respect People Try Live Tell Telling For The People Principle Did Going Story To Live By Much Who

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle. Dan Lipinski

Life Matter Life Is A Sanctity Protecting Principle

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. Dan Webster

Best Power Own Control Status Gives Tends Merely Maintain Protect Principle Policy Sake Up Itself Public Creating Public Policy

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says. Dan Webster

Power Party Way Says System Put Idea Longevity Principle Person Forth Who Works Position

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district. Dan Webster

Needs Every Member District Principle Represent

Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market. David Autor

Good People Benefits Benefit Market More Mysterious Exchange Main Advantage Idea Since Economists Come Principle Trade Understood Era Labor Than Victorian Then Comparative Specialization Specialize

The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported. David Cameron

Work People Benefits Pay Could Support Supported Principle Because Families Cap Taxes Really Who Right Need

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers. David Christian

Life Great Power First Build Everyone Our Earth Dangers Gives Potentially Remarkable Devastating Clear Almost Also Powers Principle Because Understand How Years Which Us Really Creates Use Billion Species Four Societies Flourishes Humans

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. David D. Burns

Thoughts You Yourself First Way Say Moods About Someone Mental Something Perceptions Attitudes Look Principle Created Your Therapy Beliefs Interpret Things Cognition Cognitive

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. David Korten

Degree First Market Market Economy Small Costs Price Implies Economy Principle Another Equity Sellers Substantial Which Producer Many Fundamental Buyers

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. David Remnick

Good Better Heroes Faster Say Slightly Could Write He Wrote Principle Than May Anyone Used Who Apply

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner. David Tudor

Work You Made Filters Several Components Able Generator Most Pieces Principle Without Equipment Piling Sound Mixing Up Any Stages Gain Which Manner Electronic Uses Amplification Need

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. Dee Dee Myers

Listening Circle Virtual Virtues Presidents Sign Weakness Compromise Generally Highest Takes Powerful Combination Most Make Principle Sure Sure Sign Opponents Opposite Campaign Campaigns Office Often Succeed Successful Skills Your Standing Who

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle. Dennis Kucinich

Faith Nature Christ Our Mystical Studies Principle Catholicism References Anyone Really Body Who Connections Even Aware Deeply

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America. Dick Gephardt

Hope Time Family You Waiting Year National Think Way Months Those Lock Some Take Budget Make Call Principle Does Been America Same Six Expenditures Maybe Then Really Should Even Income Apply

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude. Dick Morris

Great Change Political Paper Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Magnitude Had He Instead Instincts Principle Xerox Because Same Poll Order Polls Roosevelt Use Now Carbon Need

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death. Dixie Lee Ray

Life Death Time Organic Birth Broad Everything Recognize Constantly Life Span Fail Recycled Principle Material Being Span Biological

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