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It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Howard Baker

Trouble, Almost, Event

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.
Bjorn Lomborg

Change, Good, Technology

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
Bjorn Lomborg

Life, Future, Past

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald

Death, Long, Before

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
George Wald

Editing, Authorship, Products

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Sandra Cisneros

Humanity, Try, Honest

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Robert Smithson

Art, Place, Artist

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson

Art, Finished, Park

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Robert Smithson

Nature, Line, Straight

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness, Happy, Wait

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Eric Stoltz

Great, Job, Writing

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Mary McCarthy

Character, Bad, Humanity

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King

Women, Married, Blues

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. King

Angry, Friends, Anybody

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
Delia Smith

Cooking, Weight, Measured

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson

Fact, View, Understood

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
Kathy Ireland

Life, Work, Design

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
Benicio Del Toro

Work, Time, Working

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
Alex Kapranos

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim

Country, Living, American

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Science, End

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Bill O'Reilly

Enough, Guilty, Story

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
Robert Casey

Life, Work, Mother

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein

True, Joy, Able

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
Idina Menzel

Trying, Play, Wish

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
Holly Madison

Naked, Wear, Fur

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
Beverly Cleary

Time, School, Lonely

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
Ahmed Yassin

Face, Military, United

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
Martin Freeman

Give, Another, Ourselves

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