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Lists have always implied social order.
David Viscott / Author
Implied
Lists
Order
Social
Social Order
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I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.
Paul S. Kemp / Author
Degrees
Implied
World
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Amos Bronson Alcott / Writer
Women
Ifs
Implied
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright / Former United States Senator
Country
House
Implied
Patriotic
Tribute
Citizen
Criticizes
Paying
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She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
Jennifer Weiner / Writer
Hated
Implied
Names
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
Patrick Troughton / Actor
Fantasy
Implied
Series
Believed
Possibilities
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Adaptation
Implied
Names
Rely
Scripts
Television
Theatre
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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Guarantees
Implied
Indicators
Unbelief
Nowhere
Claimed
Guarantee
Indicator
Nor
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Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
Michael Polanyi / Economic Consultant
Acceptance
Belief
Implied
Use
Words
Course
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There's always been this implied promise - and it probably was stated somewhere - that Hillary Clinton was gonna be thanked.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
Clinton
Implied
Promise
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson / Art Critic
Dream
Childhood
Fatherhood
Holy
Implied
Sacrament
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Ambiguity
Complexity
Faithful
Implied
Worldview
Literary
Literary Fiction
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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith /
Arrested
Constructs
Disorder
Implied
Journalism
Steps
Momentarily
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Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.
William Godwin / Journalist
Exquisite
Generous
Implied
Impulse
Protection
Tenderness
Lover
Sensation
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Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.
Gregory Benford / Fictioneer
Implied
Supremacy
Cultures
Differing
Fundamentally
Ignores
Invoking
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Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
William Hague / British Politician
Decision
Defining
Ethical
Exclusive
Foreign Policy
Implied
Regimes
Unethical
Would Be
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The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.
Mimi Kennedy /
Deeper
Implied
Laughter
Heals
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Equality
Disagree
Fundamentalist
Implied
Indication
People
Process
Bring
Itself
Herself
Himself
Negotiate
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It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Birth
Citizens
Consent
Implied
Jurisdiction
Location
Parent
Sovereign
Express
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The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
Steven Sinofsky /
Clouds
Implied
Productivity
Smartphones
Tools
Transforming
Work World More
Tablet
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It is being implied that I have pulled strings to get my son out of jail on bail. Tell me if I was so powerful why would I have allowed my son to languish in Arthur Road jail for 21 days?
Aditya Pancholi /
Arthur
Bail
Implied
Jail
Strings
Pulled
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Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
Kenneth Burke / Author
Authority
Covenant
Creation
Fall
Ideas
Implied
Possibility
Insofar
Originator
Violated
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The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.
John C. Calhoun / Former United States Representative
Congress
Constitution
Framers
Implied
Carry
Effect
Necessary
Powers
Proper
Vest
Wherever
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I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.
Sharon Salzberg / Author
Compassion
Implied
Meditation
Meditation Practice
Method
Technique
Woven
Inevitably
Throughout
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True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.
Lewis B. Smedes / Author
Apostles
Implied
Repent
Saved
Good Believe People
Assume
Confess
Evangelicals
Expressly
Good Reason
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Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Existence
Implied
Regard
Beings
Influences
Origin
Respecting
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The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
Lois Lowry / Writer
Implied
Surprise
Always Me Surprise
Author
Entities
Me Always Person
Grand
Private
Private Person
Requires
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When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell /
Engaged
Housewife
Husband
Implied
Married
Shameful
Considered
Assumed
Earn
Married Woman
Quit
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So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi / Economic Consultant
Implied
Long
Structure
Theory
Universe
Use
Vocabulary
Questions
Confirm
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People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.
Roger Rees /
Careers
Implied
Me People Choice
Included
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It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express or implied mandate of the Parliament, is unconstitutional and void.
Prashant Bhushan /
Implied
Parliament
Unconstitutional
Void
Acts
Bind
Constitutional
Executive
Express
Scheme
Mandate
Settled
Violates
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I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.
Diane Lane / Actress
Compassion
Humbling
Implied
Unattractive
Vulnerability
Weakness
Life Remember My Life
Creates
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There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
David Souter / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Death
Medical
Assistance
Implied
Judgment
Legitimacy
Moral
Procedures
Recognition
Stronger
Claim
Imminent
Impending
Necessarily
Moment
Physician
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay / Poet
Architecture
Architect
Calling
Folly
Implied
Laughing
Mad
Pleasure
Dispute
Follies
Guide
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The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse.
Jenna Mccarthy / Author
Chewing
Implied
Pierce
Tobacco
Hairy
Plainly
Yours
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By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.
John C. Calhoun / Former United States Representative
Implied
Minorities
Founded
Assent
Derive
Expressed
Govern
Limitations
Subject
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The effect of the foreign direct investment of Etihad in Jet Airways and the implied bilateral agreement of air services between India and the UAE has primarily damaged Air India, which is a government-owned airline with huge assets that are extremely valuable.
Subramanian Swamy / Indian Politician
Airline
Assets
Implied
Investment
Jet
Valuable
Bilateral
Damaged
Primarily
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In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Dialogue
Fifty
Implied
Lines
Purpose
Screenplays
Serve
Wallow
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When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.
Michael Mullen /
Afghanistan
Implied
Last Time
Pakistan
Staying
Fair
Sanctioned
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When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.
Timothy Leary / Psychologist
Knowledge
Behavior
Determine
Documents
Historical
Implied
Study
Systematic
Views
Advanced
Ancestors
Possible
Expressed
Literary
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I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.
Simon Hoggart / Journalist
Disdain
Implied
Intrigued
Magnificent
Mere
News
Paris
Turkeys
Work Me Day
Cabinet
Front Page
Led
Noted
Page
Turkey
Worldwide
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He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.
Christopher Timothy /
Human Beings
Implied
Patient
Saint
Scripts
Altogether
Animals
Beings
Cared
Devalued
James
Qualities
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
Damien Hirst / Artist
Endless
Implied
Art Good Moment
Spot
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That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.
Darryl Pinckney / Novelist
Attainment
Bondage
Christianity
Conclusion
Conversion
Flight
Implied
Literacy
Slave
Early Days
Escape
Existed
Narratives
Reflect
Satisfactory
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I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.
Kim Gordon / Musician
Delivery
Implied
Subtext
Vocal
Life Music Always
Entirely
Right Away
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The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'
Christopher Voss /
Answers
Email
Implied
Messages
Negotiation
Project
Great Thing
Indirectly
Solid
Send
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The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
James Wolcott / Journalist
Fingers
Framed
Ham
Hollywood
Implied
Insult
Party
Quaint
Reality
Series
Shameless
Tag
Tea Party
Words
Now
Actor
Alike
Days
Nearly
Bunny
Candidate
Consultant
Crowd
Extra
Id
Seem
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Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me.
Hugh Ross / Creationist
Bones
Crush
Damage
Deceived
Discredit
Implied
Prophet
Sticks
Me May People
Advocate
Charges
May Me People
False
Me Words People
Intended
Spoken
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
Willem Dafoe / Voice Actor
Actors
Comfortable
Dancer
Doers
Implied
Physically
Apply
Performer
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