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A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
— Hope Mirrlees
Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong.
— James P. Carse
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
— Walter Raleigh
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
— Jonathan Haidt
Photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
— Edmundo Desnoes
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
— Daniel Levitin
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories
— Conor Oberst
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
— Jacobo Timerman
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
— Nadine Gordimer
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
— Kafu Nagai
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album that readily serves as background music to its own telling.
— Marc Weidenbaum
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
— Claude Shannon
like he selected the option from a menu, she moaned on cue.
— Cristin Harber
Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.
— Stefan Hell
So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
— George Santayana
Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.
— Paul Gascoigne
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
— Jay Inslee
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
— Bill Toomey
If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it's evil. Cut it out.
— Lynda Williams
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
— Miriam Makeba
Linda Heavner Gerald has been selected as a contestant in the Author's Show!
— Linda Heavner Gerald
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
— Stephen Breyer
Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.
— Mette Ivie Harrison
Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Determining the selected item The preceding
— John Walkenbach
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
— Andrew O'Hagan
As you consider the next question, please assume that Steve was selected at random from a representative sample:
— Daniel Kahneman
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.
— Joel Dorman Steele
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
— Thomas Jefferson
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love.
— John Cheever
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Proud to announce that Esfir Is Alive has been selected as a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Young Adult Fiction.
— Andrea Simon
The scene has not been composed, but merely selected
— Bruce Barnbaum
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.
— Alfred Marshall
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
— Carter G. Woodson
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
— Herbert Hoover
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
— Jonathan Miller
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
— Paulo Freire
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.
— Julie B. Beck
Regular spot to hide out and eat my lunch. I selected the book I had been
— Jessica Sorensen
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
— Eli Siegel
The forces of nature aren't arbitrarily selected in some way bychance or design, they are simply the possible directions of time. — Gevin Giorbran
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
— Barbra Streisand
Presidents are selected, not elected.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.
— Sully Tarnish
I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality
— Phoebe Kitanidis
innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.
— Ross Macdonald
Mary Oliver: "...Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ("The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems, 1992)
— Bonnie Zieman
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
— Albert Bandura
On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.
— Chuck Feeney
Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
— Moutasem Algharati
On the other hand, it was a well-known fact that cell phones were tools of the devil. He selected
— Joe Hill
Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.
— Hope Mirrlees
Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
— Abhijit Naskar
Used every man according to his capacity.
— Mary Stewart
A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.
— Gavin De Becker
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
selected to 'IGN START'.
— Gib Vogel
The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.
— Andre Michel Lwoff
Linda Heavner Gerald was selected as Winner in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading
— Linda Heavner Gerald
Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected.
— Behnam Rajabpoor
Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.
— Nicholas Nassim Taleb
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
— Sidney Sheldon
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
— Gustav Mahler
Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.
— Thomas Wolfe
So fine a medicine is the will to action.
— Hope Mirrlees
Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.
— Sarah Ockler
I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
— Peter Diamandis
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
— John L. Phillips
I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.
— Jeffrey Tambor
We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
— Peter J. Carroll
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
— C.J. Langenhoven
