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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.
A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.
We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
As a CIA officer, I worked counterterrorism and counternarcotics cases, and I have an acute awareness about the threats facing our country, both foreign and domestic.
Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.
Perhaps inevitably, media stories focus on differences, which exacerbates tensions; yet Islamic radicalization is, in part, an acute expression of broader trends that affect us all.
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
In a time of fractured politics, our need for unifying cultural events is more acute, and particularly our need for creators who do not deny the people their art because of the votes they cast.
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I'm afraid, I shut down and can't do anything. If I'm overwhelmed, I shut down and can't do anything.