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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Barney Oliver

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
Wilfrid Laurier

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
Anna Friel

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.
Edward Felten

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Charlotte Smith

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
Susannah McCorkle

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Robert Toombs

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
Paul Begala

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
Jose Mourinho

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.
Paul Parker

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn

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