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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. -- Michael Foot
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step. -- Eric Cantor
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. -- Nick Bostrom
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. -- Colin Powell
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. -- William J. Brennan
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. -- H. G. Wells
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas. -- Bob Ainsworth
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense. -- Hugo Chavez
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy. -- Winona LaDuke
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy. -- Seth Shostak
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time. -- Marilynne Robinson
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. -- William Ames
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent. -- Graydon Carter
Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad. -- Ron Paul
You cannot protect something without intervening on some level. -- Thomas de Maiziere
government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. -- Camille Paglia
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain. -- Henci Goer
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. -- Judith Butler
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis. -- Tom Hoover
They care for, protect, and guide God's people, frequently intervening or bring messages to people from God. -- Mary C. Neal
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... -- Simone de Beauvoir
[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy -- Albert Bandura
"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction." -- John Hickenlooper
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. -- Edith Wharton
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? -- Douglas Adams
The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over. -- Theresa May
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. -- Oliver Goldsmith
There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. -- J. K. Rowling
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more. -- Oliver DeMille
The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils. -- Henry David Thoreau
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening. -- Edith Wharton
The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values. -- Chico Xavier
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product -- Sol LeWitt
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence. -- Robert Reich
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. -- William J. Brennan
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility -- Camille Paglia
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. -- Sonia Sotomayor

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