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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Think
  • Find

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Back
  • Saturday
  • Season

• The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Moments

• I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Just
  • Missed
  • Sydney

• As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Song
  • Color
  • Flower

• Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

  

  Jean Harlow
  • Book
  • Christmas

• I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

  

  Lord John Russell
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Die

• It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Through
  • Continue
  • Represents

• Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Book
  • Religion
  • Roles