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. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

You know the answer to that, ... I think I came here and played the best basketball of my career here. This team and this organization opened their arms up to me, and they let me come in when only a select few other teams around the league were willing to do that. And you know they stepped up to the plate. So there's no question where my heart is at.

You'd expect New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. When you look at the places the greatest band in the world plays, that they would select Charlottesville is pretty cool.

You can't have the administration and a select number of members alter the law.

The majority of the guys I like. The main thing I had a problem with was just my treatment by the front office and maybe the effort of a select few guys.

The hope is that the president -- or more likely someone on his staff who is more familiar with these issues will prevail upon him to select someone of the highest caliber.

The focus will soon shift to President Bush's next appointee to the high court. We have no doubt that President Bush will select a nominee who embraces his judicial philosophy of interpreting the Constitution - not legislating from the bench. The political dynamics suggest that the confirmation process for the next nominee will be much more contentious. We hope that isn't the case, but are certainly prepared to move quickly and aggressively to ensure that the next nominee gets a fair hearing and a prompt vote in the Senate.

The focus of the game was to play quality defense. We knew this World Select Team had shooters and would execute, so our focus was not to leave anybody open and the guys did a pretty good job of doing that.

The Charter board intends to move forward to select a new chief executive officer as quickly as practical,

The image of manufacturing is unattractive to younger generations. In the past you expected people who needed a job to feed their family would show up, and you would have plenty of people to select from. It's not so anymore.

And once you select an alternative doesn't mean you're locked into it.

The draft is going to have to provide us with a lot of young talent that's going to have to come in and contribute right away -- hopefully in a mighty way, ... When you've got as many holes as we have, I think any player that we select in any of the rounds will have a unique opportunity to come in and play.

The first meetings to select the first 1,500 stars for the (Hollywood) Walk of Fame were there, in the late '50s. After (nearby) Greek Theatre performances, celebrities would be around. It was a busy place.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

The discussion about any one league will not go into our discussions when it comes time to select the at-larges. We are going to look strictly at teams, what teams have done.

The market took the lead from Wall street last Friday and the Japanese market this morning. Buying interest in select blue chips and China stocks was strong.

The market never met a tax cut it didn't like and it would not be happy with a complete roll back, ... but if the economic recovery seems to be full-throated, the market might be willing to accept the rolling back of select tax cuts as a means of reducing the deficit, making John Edwards and John Kerry more appealing.

The market saw a technical rebound after recent sharp fall, with scores of investors hunting for bargains in select blue chips.

The matrix is more complex with soybeans. You might have 10 fields and have to select six different varieties to deal with all the variables. Soybeans are also more sensitive than corn to the environment during seed fill.

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The low-hanging fruit of early adopters is gone. And the remaining dial-up population seems unenthusiastic in terms of the Internet, so mathematically, that makes for a smaller fruitful pool for providers to select from.

The low-hanging fruit of early adopters is gone, ... And the remaining dial-up population seems unenthusiastic in terms of the Internet, so mathematically, that makes for a smaller fruitful pool for providers to select from.

Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

True friends are families which you can select.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that

Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast; but of the things which thou hast select the best, and reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if thou hadst them not

I hope the president will select someone who meets the high standards that she set and that can bring the nation together, as she did,

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.