"If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences."
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"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."
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"Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives."
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"I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk."
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"I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable."
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"You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service."
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"Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon."
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"If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned."
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"Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death."
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"If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned."
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"You get to define the terms of your life."
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"What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity."
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"Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price."
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"Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support."
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"Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you."
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"Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms."
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"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."
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"Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities."
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"Yes, I'm happy, in human terms."
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"Always invest for the long term."
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