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Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.


Ellen Ullman

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DEYTH BANGER It is a lie.
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DEYTH BANGER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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BEN OAK This is a technical liquidation. There are large numbers of non-commercial (contracts) out there.
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WENDY ABRAMOWITZ We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that c...
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TOBA BETA Just like science,
there must be other kinds of sensations
which haven't yet been felt TOBA BETA I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.
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ANGIE KARAN There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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BILL CAREY It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, ...
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GARY F EVANS... You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tit...
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DEYTH BANGER Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
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JEFF BEZOS There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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TED TURNER When so much is there for you, it does help take the stress out of our jobs.
XAVIER NADY To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
JOAN RIVERS Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
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EDWARD EVERETT HALE Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is...
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MAX SCHERZER What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
HELEN KELLER Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do
PATRICIA FRIPP Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The dislike is still there, but the people out there were disappointed once,
EDWARD COX The good news is there are a lot of good students out there.
ERNIE MORGAN There is an element of the population out there that simply does not want to deal with car salesmen ...
JACK NERAD Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects t...
AJA NAOMI KING It doesn't mean there is an empty apartment out there for the 400 households out there.
LORAINE HELBER What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
HELEN KELLER What I am looking for is not "out there", it is in me
HELEN KELLER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is ho...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's some good hitting out there. I wouldn't run (with) that stinking ball.
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CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It's sickening to watch it. It's sickening to be a part of it, knowing you're out there for big minu...
RAFER ALSTON I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape b...
STOCKARD CHANNING When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes suscepti...
HENRY HON The pitch was good for batting but it was still not easy out there.
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KAREN CHAPMAN There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It doe...
CARLA H. KRUEGER The technology is out there. We just need to find the right type of car.
KAREN CLYSDALE We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen ...
ELLEN DEGENERES Once they put it out there, they're accessible.
JEAN VAUGHN We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He makes a lot of kids better because he does so much out there. He is like another coach out there ...
BRIAN HAMMIL I think there is still a real need today for a forcible-entry capability.
BILL CALDWELL I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''...
ELLEN DEGENERES Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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DOUG ELIX Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
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JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER This fund does a pretty good job of being selective along the way and not just taking the largest co...
JEFF TJORNEHOJ For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there. This is further evidence ...
ADAM SOHN There are well-intentioned advertisers out there that do not understand where their ads are appearin...
TREVOR HUGHES A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the...
OSCAR WILDE There is a school out there for everybody. You just have to find it.
GAIL PETTY In the long run, it does even out.
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ELLEN PARR No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
ELLEN VAUGHN Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun...
ELLEN VAUGHN He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
ELLEN GLASGOW Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
ELLEN GLASGOW What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at r...
ELLEN GOODMAN Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
ELLEN GLASGOW People tend to remember my performances, not me.
ELLEN BARKIN There
ELLEN GOODMAN He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent...
ELLEN GLASGOW Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
ELLEN BARKIN I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
ELLEN DEGENERES Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
ELLEN GOODMAN I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c...
ELLEN DEGENERES