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  • America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.' -- Ivan Krastev
  • In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. -- Elliott Abrams
  • My predictions are notably inaccurate -- Robert Caro
  • My predictions are notably inaccurate. -- Robert Caro
  • Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather. -- Alexei Sayle
  • Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning. -- Aldo Leopold
  • I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. -- Thomas Perry
  • I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. -- Andy Hertzfeld
  • Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? -- Henry Maudsley
  • The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. -- Irving Babbitt
  • With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. -- Kavita Ramdas
  • A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead. -- Shawn Amos
  • With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. -- Christian Lacroix
  • Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. -- Giorgio Moroder
  • I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman. -- Dominique Moceanu
  • Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful. -- Paul Arden
  • We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less -- Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. -- Mark Twain
  • National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. -- Jacques Chirac
  • Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world. -- Will Hutton
  • In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. -- William Ames
  • The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. -- Vince Cable
  • These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance. -- Alain Badiou
  • Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice. -- Molly Ivins
  • I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay. -- Hari Kunzru
  • If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. -- Thomas Perry
  • Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them. -- Scarlett Thomas
  • Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. -- Frederick Pollock
  • I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush. -- Marie Calloway
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