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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
Life
Dance
Own
Changes
Earth
Evolution
Emerges
More
Entity
Purposes
Environment
Clearly
Coupled
Partners
Does
Tightly
Material
Than
Adapt
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
Jefferson Davis
Government
Rights
People
Resume
Power
Birth
States
Has-Been
Admitted
Purposes
Been
Authority
Subsequently
Which
Proclaimed
Union
Bills
Right
I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.
John Dingell
Long
Mouth
Changing
Out
Seems
Only
Purposes
Take
Foot
He
Feet
His
Very
Close
Pitt
Now
Served
Suggesting
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
Laura Mennell
Worth
Animals
Harming
Fur
Vanity
Cosmetic
Shade
Perfect
Purposes
Shameful
Mere
Lipstick
Any
Disgusting
Senseless
Them
Reason
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
Muhammad Iqbal
Man
Own
Energy
Universe
Destiny
Adjusting
Purposes
Share
Putting
Well
Him
Himself
Forces
Around
His
Lot
Ends
Aspirations
Whole
Now
Deeper
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
Shirley Manson
Me
Own
Everyone
Crosses
My Own
Tend
Purposes
Around
Mean
Thing
Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest.
William Lloyd Garrison
Charity
Those
Shake
Purposes
Arm
Missionary
Tract
Boxes
Contest
Educational
Been
Subject
Off
Them
Holy
Asleep
Stand
Among
Christians
Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
P. J. O'Rourke
Vote
Voting
Example
Others
Types
Only
Purpose
Remain
Purposes
Recreational
No-One
Clearly
Votes
For Example
Course
Ban
Wants
Which
Available
Certain
Should
Assault
Harm
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Ada Lovelace
Future
Language
Become
Analysis
Speedy
Our
Possession
Possible
More
Purposes
Vast
Developed
Powerful
New
Rendered
Practical
Than
Truths
Accurate
Hitherto
May
Which
Mankind
Means
Use
Application
Wield
It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
Adam Schlesinger
Time
You
Better
Somebody
Own
Project
Say
Would
My Own
More
Purposes
Write
Feel
Like
Involved
Calls
Because
Got
Up
Fewer
Just
Just Because
Really
Working
Hard
Cool
Things
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Aesop
You
Will
Men
Own
Purposes
Allow
Use
Your
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
Alan Dean Foster
Time
Business
World
Try
First
Year
Purposes
Con
Make
First Time
Go
Decades
May
Convention
Again
Fantasy
Last
Two
Last Year
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Alan Perlis
Every
Purposes
Written
Another
Which
Two
Program
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
Finance
Purposes
Practical
Accurate
Cent
Rounding
Nearest
Sufficiently
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
Alva Myrdal
Science
Resources
Purposes
Practically
Does
Intellectual
Trained
Just
Being
Happen
My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
Amanda Seales
Me
People
About
Purposes
Also
Creating
Creatively
Serve
Thing
Things
Two
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Amber Valletta
Future
Art
Dreams
Good
Entertainment
Past
Reflect
Our
Our Dreams
Bad
Hopes
Purposes
Also
Whether
Present
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein
Man
Hero
Appropriate
Purposes
Holds
Therefore
Thinker
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Ang Lee
Emotions
Characters
Purposes
Motivation
Serve
If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
Azim Premji
Natural
Wealth
Responsibility
Blessed
Society
Enough
Has-Been
More
Purposes
Terms
Got
How
Been
Normal
Than
Expects
Much
Certain
Used
Fortunate
Applied
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank
You
People
Ethics
Think
Ought
Back
Purposes
Knew
Looked
Committee
Hold
Sent
Them
Should
Serious
Violation
Violations
Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
Bart Chilton
Technology
People
Better
Think
Faster
Assume
Markets
Purposes
Perform
Nobody
Always
Insure
Continue
Question
Wants
Against
Should
Fundamental
Need
The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
Barton Seaver
Good
You
Yourself
Key
Setting
Recognize
Purposes
Main
Outside
Environment
New
Up
Get
Grilling
Cook
Whole
Actually
The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
Ben Bernanke
Accountability
Other
Tools
Those
See
Able
Purposes
Federal
Federal Reserve
Powerful
Like
Democratic
How
Being
Banks
Central
Public
Requires
Used
Being Used
Reserve
I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
Benjamin Clementine
Parents
Purposes
Mail
Suppose
Goes
Tax
Flat
Anywhere
Registered
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
Billy Sherwood
Amazing
Power
Out
Purposes
Deliver
Studio
Know
Amazing Things
Done
Board
Technicians
Things
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