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en If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study

en The market seems to be tied more to the Dow nowadays than it is to Nasdaq and brokers seemed to have used this small decline there as a pretext to sell and make some profit. His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. The market seems to be tied more to the Dow nowadays than it is to Nasdaq and brokers seemed to have used this small decline there as a pretext to sell and make some profit.

en It only counted as one win, but I think, in people's minds they had disregarded some of the things this team has accomplished and now it validates them. Honestly, perception is reality in everybody's business. I think if you stare at the numbers for where our team is - we have a very respectable RPI, and it's been respectable all year, we have a very respectable strength of schedule, and it's been respectable all year, two key non-league wins on the road - all the formulas that says why are you even talking bubble?

en The pretext that they have used to launch strikes against Iraq has been dropped, ... It's only been a few hours since the declaration last night and our meeting today, but the reactions from Washington and London are clear. It shows that this was only a pretext.

en Humans have always had a complex relationship with technology. Automobiles, for instance, changed the nature of life in America, where we live, how we work, what we can do with our leisure time. But they have also brought us traffic jams and contributed to global warming. The impact of information technology may be equally profound, and these are things we need to think about and study.

en We were shocked by the results. This study shows that at least in mice, diet can have a more profound effect on heart disease than any drug that we could imagine.

en If all you want out of work is to provide means for your existence, that's fine. But unions are here to obtain some legal norms that make work more respectable.

en I think something had gone a bit wrong with the translation, because one of the reviewers said to me 'Bridget Jones's Diary' was a 'transcendental study of existential despair.' So, naturally, I was delighted that someone had at last recognized how profound I was.

en I think something had gone a bit wrong with the translation, because one of the reviewers said to me 'Bridget Jones's Diary' was a 'transcendental study of existential despair.' So, naturally, I was delighted that someone had at last recognized how profound I was,

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en Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime
  Will Durant

en When we were in Bosnia, my dad would go to work, and when he would leave, he always would tell me to study and study hard. He worked so we could move.

en When I looked at the Ramey study, I had lots of criticisms. When I look at the King study, my sense is, 'I wish I had done that work.' It's nicely done.

en [I’ll probably settle for re-reading Percy, for finding that wonderful passage near the end about the] more respectable than respectable ... his forehead is an ambiguous sienna color and pied: It is impossible to be sure that he received ashes.

en The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
  G. K. Chesterton

en Nowadays, without communications, you're basically dead in the water. In the old days you could get by without it. Nowadays, you've just got to have it.


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