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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Good, Idea, Twenty

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
Robert Shea

Focus, Rather, Goes

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
Ben Barnes

Time, Himself, Maybe

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Charles Polanyi

Worth, Ourselves, Though

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
Matthew Rhys

Amazing, Friend, Lives

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Government, May

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun

Work, Society, Knowledge

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel

Subsidize... or lend.
Susan George

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Business, Credit

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
Kurt Loder

Important, Themselves, Television

The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
Karen Mills

Small, Encourage, Banks

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
Aretha Franklin

Good, Soul, Song

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Tobias Wolff

Live, Themselves, Lives

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
Namie Amuro

Fun, Working, While

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
Neville Marriner

Themselves, Languages, Vocal

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Jim Leach

Public, Certitude

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs

Give, Same, Costs

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs

Give, Same, Costs

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.
Ken Mehlman

Together, Effort, While

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
Laura San Giacomo

Long, Hand, Stay

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine

Themselves, Film, Stories

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood

May, Write, Story

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.
Jeremy Bulloch

Nature, Future, Character

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Bill Brandt

Give, Hold, Prepared

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.
Lloyd Kaufman

Business, Young, Creative

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.
Jourdan Dunn

Money, Future, Help

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
Edgard Varese

Thought, Dream, Whole

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
Jon Favreau

Job, Around, Difficult

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
Rene Cassin

Awesome, Along, Conflict

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