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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. ↗

— Mo Rocca

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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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