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terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation -- Michael Harris PhD
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences. -- Bob Gill
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. -- Antony Beevor
Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years. -- Maggie Stiefvater
However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.. -- Orrin Hatch
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams? -- Dan Burton
Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not. -- Guus Hiddink
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time. -- Bobby Seale
Piper!" Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos." "Thought you'd never ask." She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back! -- Rick Riordan
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. -- Joseph Stiglitz
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. -- Scarlett Johansson
If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. -- Jon Stewart
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. -- Paulo Coelho
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. -- Bennie Thompson
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. -- Susan Lieberman
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11. -- Richard Engel
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. -- Victoria Moran
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' -- Jay Leno
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite. -- Rufus Sewell
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications. -- James G. Stavridis
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers. -- Abraham Verghese
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. -- Joan Didion
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My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards. -- Grant Achatz
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.' -- Hugh Laurie
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror. -- Warren Rudman
I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. -- Eminem
We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19. -- Avril Lavigne
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. -- Edward Norton
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war. -- Walter Kirn
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. -- Carl Honore
We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes. -- Katherine Center
A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic. -- Katharine Lee Bates
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Every revolution has its counter-revolution. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. -- Guy Debord
A good counter needs no calculator. -- Laozi
Violence always thrived on counter violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. -- H. L. Mencken
Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution. -- Andrei Grechko
Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. -- Martin Buber
Love is the only effective counter to death. -- Maureen Duffy
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary. -- Fidel Castro
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. -- Lawrence S. Wittner
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities. -- Henry James
Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. -- Kakha Bendukidze
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. -- Mao Zedong
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten. -- Denis Norden
I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. -- Theresa May
My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit. -- David Guterson
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. -- Ignazio Silone
I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store -- Lita Ford
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. -- Andre Gide
I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store. -- Lita Ford
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. -- Henry David Thoreau
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. -- Edith Hamilton
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale, -- Boris Johnson
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. -- Pierre Trudeau
I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. -- Richard Marcinko
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. -- John F. Kennedy
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. -- Jonathan Coleman
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! -- Bruce Lee
If we arenâ??t prepared to be counter-cultural we arenâ??t ready to be Christians. -- Kevin DeYoung
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. -- Cameron Russell
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. -- Jacques Delors
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state. -- Don DeLillo
I try to counter what Donald Trump says that might have an effect on somebody. -- Hillary Clinton
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. -- Naguib Mahfouz
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. -- Athol Fugard
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player. -- Jo Durie
AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. -- William Gibson
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. -- Rick Warren
Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. -- Ben Elton
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. -- Corbin Bernsen
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. -- Hugh Sidey
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. -- Henry Rollins
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. -- Anais Nin
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. -- Jared Diamond
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. -- bell hooks
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. -- Barack Obama
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. -- Lewis Wolpert
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. -- William Glasser
The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious. -- Mark Nepo
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right. -- Trisha Yearwood
At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail! -- Leonard Ravenhill
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. -- Toyo Ito
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. -- Rob Lowe
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. -- Nicholas Johnson
Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern. -- Eden Hazard
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. -- Lionel Jospin
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. -- Linus Torvalds
To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities. -- Patrick Dixon
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful. -- Glenda Jackson
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate. -- Maajid Nawaz
The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. -- Meles Zenawi
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. -- Henry Adams
Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag. -- Dustin Poirier
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away. -- Penn Jillette
One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. -- Eckhart Tolle
To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama

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