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Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces. – Carlos Castaneda	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
That’s exactly the way pay is supposed to work, the problem with pay traditionally is it’s been all upside and no downside. CEOs would often get all the credit and money for good times and then blame El Nino or some extraneous force for the downside. Now they are being forced to accept more responsibility. – Nell Minow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. – Mark Twain	added by Normando 2 years ago
Those are policy decisions, those are not extraneous COVID issues. – Brian Brenberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our caucus believes that the fairest easiest and most bipartisan way to come to an organizing resolution is to enact the 2001 agreement that senators Lott and Daschle came to in a bipartisan way back then. We, our caucus, is strongly opposed to any extraneous provisions. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wouldn't be for a bill that would be $ 1.8 trillion - $ 2 trillion, it's too much and there's going to be too much extraneous stuff as well. – Mike Braun	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The art deprived of closeness to the world is, in fact, pure, flat, unmanageable, decorative. Totally extraneous because she herself destroyed outer. Empty and indifferent, deprived of destiny, it solves only technical issues. – David Berkowitz Chicago	added by davidberkowitzchicago 4 years ago
It is not inconceivable now that Mr. Robert Mueller and Robert Mueller team may seek to conjure up some extraneous crime, pertaining to my business, or maybe not even pertaining to the 2016 election. – Roger Stone	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can’t predict for you what extraneous items may be included (on the omnibus) but there are almost always some. – The Senate	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don't wander off into those extraneous areas that can be exploited. I have learned that, moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no longer language in the bill tying extraneous issues (to the bill). That would be a deal breaker. – Barbara Boxer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period – Antonio Gramsci	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

– Carlos Castaneda

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

That’s exactly the way pay is supposed to work, the problem with pay traditionally is it’s been all upside and no downside. CEOs would often get all the credit and money for good times and then blame El Nino or some extraneous force for the downside. Now they are being forced to accept more responsibility.

– Nell Minow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

– Mark Twain

added by Normando
2 years ago

Those are policy decisions, those are not extraneous COVID issues.

– Brian Brenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our caucus believes that the fairest easiest and most bipartisan way to come to an organizing resolution is to enact the 2001 agreement that senators Lott and Daschle came to in a bipartisan way back then. We, our caucus, is strongly opposed to any extraneous provisions.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I wouldn't be for a bill that would be $ 1.8 trillion - $ 2 trillion, it's too much and there's going to be too much extraneous stuff as well.

– Mike Braun

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The art deprived of closeness to the world is, in fact, pure, flat, unmanageable, decorative. Totally extraneous because she herself destroyed outer. Empty and indifferent, deprived of destiny, it solves only technical issues.

– David Berkowitz Chicago

added by davidberkowitzchicago
4 years ago

It is not inconceivable now that Mr. Robert Mueller and Robert Mueller team may seek to conjure up some extraneous crime, pertaining to my business, or maybe not even pertaining to the 2016 election.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can’t predict for you what extraneous items may be included (on the omnibus) but there are almost always some.

– The Senate

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't wander off into those extraneous areas that can be exploited. I have learned that, moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no longer language in the bill tying extraneous issues (to the bill). That would be a deal breaker.

– Barbara Boxer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

– Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period

– Antonio Gramsci

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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