- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
- Nov 07, 2020
We like songs that are familiar.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020