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Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

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• What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Help
  • Organization

• It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Same
  • Cooperation
  • Google

• I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Past
  • Being
  • Falling

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Myself

• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Play
  • Like
  • Piano

• The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Years
  • Redemption
  • Beyond

• You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Racism
  • Racial

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• There's no question that jihad historically means war.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Door
  • Wall
  • Red

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• Αἰθίοπές τε <θεοὺς σφετέρους> σιμοὺς μέλανάς τεΘρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς <φασι πέλεσθαι>.

  

  Xenophanes

• I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock

• I mean, to see somebody else when they put so much work into whatever they do... that inspires me. My dad, he does that very much so. An actor that I really look up to is Johnny Depp. The amount of work that he puts into his stuff, he is such an amazing actor I think!

  

  Corbin Bleu Reivers
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

  

  Anwar Ibrahim
  • Silent
  • Surrender
  • Witness

• 'The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because I didn't have a label or that kind of opportunity before. It also kind of trained me as person and performer with an audience.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Opportunity

• But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • Country

• The law which attempts a man's life capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Life
  • Law

• As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Great
  • Long
  • Player

• Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

  

  Frei Otto