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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
My siblings and I grew up studying from both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible, going to Mass, and then coming home to a yoga kirtan.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
I knew, back when I was starting up, that if I had something that could be developed for the mass market, I could really take it forward.
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle.
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.