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- Nov 07, 2020
Compact Quotes
Compact can describe writing, construction, or a formal agreement, and these quotes cover all three. One writer values the discipline of keeping work concise and compact as a creative exercise. A nautical reflection uses tightness and compactness to describe a well-built ship. A historical quote recalls confederation as a compact among founding provinces, and a modern line references an international compact for safe migration.
Concise writing is its own discipline, a compact form of Change that says more with less.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cingular-branded 2125 Smartphone is an example of how Windows Mobile 5.0 can create a flexible, powerful phone that helps mobile information workers access their most essential business data in a compact form factor.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
- Nov 07, 2020
We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.
- Aristocratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.
- Conspiracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020