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  • In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. -- Vernon L. Smith
  • Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles. -- Julian Jaynes
  • I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks. -- Louis Navellier
  • It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. -- Stanley Milgram
  • CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. -- Floyd Abrams
  • It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. -- Stanislav Grof
  • We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation. -- Eduard Buchner
  • I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana. -- James Tobin
  • The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
  • The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world. -- Annie Besant
  • Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film. -- Steven Spielberg
  • If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light. -- Ragnar Frisch
  • Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them. -- Gary Cohn
  • Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization -- Florence Nightingale
  • Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation. -- Plato
  • Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. -- Thomas Sowell
  • I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. -- E. P. Thompson
  • IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. -- Michael Faraday
  • we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps -- Charles Darwin
  • If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. -- Eric Hoffer
  • That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. -- Timothy Leary
  • The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. -- Aristotle
  • When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine. -- Lazare Carnot
  • You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space. -- Giorgio Morandi
  • The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
  • When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions. -- Arthur M. Wellington
  • Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities. -- John Dewey
  • Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist. -- David Lack
  • It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths. -- Norman Cousins
  • Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. -- Aristotle
  • A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. -- Samuel Johnson
  • How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity! -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Instead of a pentagon, you have a lot of people that are trained in bridging the difference between nations. The pentagon would serve as an intermediate organization to bridge the difference between cultures. -- Jacque Fresco
  • The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes. -- Ibn Ata Allah
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