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In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

The only evidence that intelligent design is able to muster is the observation that science has not yet explained everything, and therefore design must be kept around as a default explanation for what is left,

It's no longer the default segment that everybody just falls into. You have to have a product that's that much better to pull people in -- or depend on fleet sales.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

The markets are telling you that more traders are starting to see a greater risk that a default scenario could happen sooner in time than later. You cannot deny there is a pattern here.

We had a few errors, a default in one or our printers so they actually had to replace the printer.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

We're seeing a more enlightened Microsoft. Back in 1998, they would've tried to tell people to use their stuff more exclusively. Microsoft is saying to application developers: Don't default to Flash.

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.