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My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. -- Jack Higgins
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one. -- Enoch Powell
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. -- Duong Van Minh
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.' -- Amy Poehler
Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional. -- Ben Bernanke
I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage. -- Demian Bichir
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. -- Michael McCaul
Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary. -- Henry Eyring
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. -- Francois Jacob
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. -- A. R. Ammons
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved. -- David Weinberger
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American. -- Jeff Denham
The... provisional government unwaveringly believes that it can solve all the present problems together with the broad masses of Ethiopia. However, we can do this only if all the people come out in unison to implement our planned undertakings. -- Meles Zenawi
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term. -- Walead Beshty
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The idealist regards facts as provisional. -- Mason Cooley
Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime. -- Jose Bergamin
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional. -- David Pye
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. -- Karl Marx
The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. -- Harry S. Truman
In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith. -- Michael Shermer
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. -- Stephen Hawking
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. -- Louis de Broglie
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. -- Cees Nooteboom
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. -- Andre Malraux
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living. -- Gregory Benford
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental. -- Jane Addams
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement. -- Henry Giroux
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind. -- Gautama Buddha

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