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This little known but quite ubiquitous system is one of the reasons that Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz coined his oft-quoted aphorism that federal prosecutors and FBI agents teach witnesses "not only how to sing, but how to compose."
Forbes.com: News Harvey Silverglate 2011
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Consider the oft-quoted statement, “The exception proves the rule.”
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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For thousands of years, India has understood that the divine can be imagined and experienced in all kinds of ways, as in the oft-quoted verse from the Rig Veda, Ekam sat vipraha bahudha vadanti -- typically translated as, "Truth is one, the wise call it by many names."
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent Philip Goldberg 2011
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For thousands of years, India has understood that the divine can be imagined and experienced in all kinds of ways, as in the oft-quoted verse from the Rig Veda, Ekam sat vipraha bahudha vadanti -- typically translated as, "Truth is one, the wise call it by many names."
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent Philip Goldberg 2011
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The 21st Century Learning Initiative is pledged to get ever more people to question their old assumptions in an essentially "play-like" manner, and so accept the truth of Einstein's oft-quoted statement that "imagination is more important than knowledge."
John Abbott: We're Born to Learn, Not to Be Taught John Abbott 2011
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And this time, he likely has a better understanding than ever of the oft-quoted Mark Twain maxim: "Be good and you will be lonesome."
Solo act Shani Davis alone in front with unusual approach 2010
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An oft-quoted figure to support the religious-right domination thesis is a 2008 entrance poll that found 60 percent of Iowa GOP caucusgoers thought of themselves as "born-again or evangelical Christian."
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CBO Director Elmendorf told the Senate Finance Committee “he expects fewer Americans would migrate from private health insurance to a public plan than projected by the oft-quoted study by nonpartisan policy experts at The Lewin Group.”
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An oft-quoted figure to support the religious-right domination thesis is a 2008 entrance poll that found 60 percent of Iowa GOP caucusgoers thought of themselves as "born-again or evangelical Christian."
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It never ceases to amaze me that in the 8 months since the election, these oft-quoted 'campaign aides' never seem to have actual names.
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