- Parking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flatten Quotes
When texture gets pressed out of things.
One speaker recalls flattening their nose against gallery windows just to study art up close, a small physical gesture of devotion. See Art for more on that same pull toward creative work.
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- Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
- Big Corporations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.
- Certitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020