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You know how a nonlethal weapon is supposed to work? A nonlethal weapon works on the basis of three things: It needs to deter, and that's normally done through pain, and that pain creates a byproduct, which is fear. Greg Rucka
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You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job. Greg Rusedski
You Win Job Way Get Any Which Works
Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure. Gretchen Whitmer
Together State Our Paralyzed Roads Crumbling Partisanship Fix America Blueprint Infrastructure Create Works Rebuilding
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Insist Elsewhere Books States Calling Spain Them Works Describe Novels United United States Publishers
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. Guy Davenport
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Everything works out how it should. Gwen Stefani
Everything Out How Should Works
Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz. H. W. Brands
Great History Year Down Every Thomas Plow Classical Tackle Touched Through Students Feel Like She Read Times Get Graduate Graduate Students Oz Dorothy Ponder Then Works Present
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read. Hallgrimur Helgason
Reading About More Writers Written Like Know Read How Were Than Curious Authors Interested Many Works Actual
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works. Hari Kunzru
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. Harold Washington
Political Action Our Resources Muster Affirmative Affirmative Action Going Place Works Keep Need
People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who cover the White House. It's a branding thing, but because it has the 'White House' before it, people think they're just King Joffrey's goons. Hasan Minhaj
Reality People King Before White White House Group Think Assume Journalists House Because Still Cover Just Who Works Thing Association
My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy. Hasan Minhaj
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Yoga has been done for thousands of years and if people keep doing it, it must mean it works. Hector Bellerin
People Has-Been Must Thousands Thousands Of Years Doing Been Years Yoga Done Mean Works Keep
I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive. Heidi Hammel
Religion Science People Think Universe Way Those System Tries Mutually Mutually Exclusive About Give Comprehension More Exclusive Operate Around Different Which Regimes Meaning Us Works Mechanics Belief Lives Things
You never know why something works or doesn't. Heidi Klum
You Something Never Know Works Why
It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs. Helen Garner
Time Me Together Experience People Think Other Chunk Machine Runs See Some Object Something More Remembered Taking Make Up Stolen Stories Interesting Little Much Works Things
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. Henry Flynt
Music Imitative Visual Composing About Terms Also Were Began Very Being Which Interested Translating Works
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. Henry Flynt
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It's fascinating how life works. Henry Louis Gates
Life How Fascinating Works
The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch. Henry Markram
Best Try Build Way Out Best Way Something How Scratch Figure Works
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins
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Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed. Henry Spencer
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A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time; it is just the way it works. Herb Kelleher
Time Happy Mysteries Back Way All-Time Employee Well Coming Motivated Green Just Enduring Customer Works Keep Treats
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. Herbert A. Simon
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Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works. Herman Gorter
You Judge Draw Able Only Tactics Failed Know Well Course Conclusions Am Least Western Western Europe Difference As Far As Far Your Europe Works
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. Hilary Mantel
Memory Chronology Wolf Way Attempts Leaps Hall Loops Historian Duplicate Flashes Works
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