"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator."
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"Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised"
"Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up."
"Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms."
"The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution."
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
"I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant."
"The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack."
"Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period."
"For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf."
"The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms."
"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."
"For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms."
"I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses."
"You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there."
"Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers."
"Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms."
"I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms."
"Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is."
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."