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I think the misuse and the miseducation of the flag has pushed it to this point, why do we let hate groups dictate how we feel and how we live? – Bill Chumley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have been working away behind the scenes to solve these problems. We had a meeting with HRW International. We have done everything we can to find answers to these questions, there's one thing we cannot do and that is to dictate to a sovereign state how to run its affairs. – Patrick Hickey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As a fitness instructor and online personality, people expect me to look a certain way. So when I take a selfie and people see that my butt isn’t huge and I don’t have a defined six-pack, they think there’s something wrong with me, the thing is—my physical appearance alone does not dictate how strong I am nor does it say anything about how good of a trainer I am. It’s frustrating when people try to align your worth by your looks. – Blogilates Cassey Ho	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
While I had great respect for the military, they should not dictate political strategy, which is what's happening now. – Richard Holbrooke	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The choice is symbolic: the Likud led by me, that will continue to stand firmly for (Israel's) vital interests, compared with a left-wing government ... ready to accept any dictate. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But we understand, and it's important that everyone who's looking at this system understands, that this is an unusual situation where in the marketplace you have two large suppliers - the two big railway companies - where they have extraordinary market power, and we simply cannot accept outcomes where those two big companies would dictate to the market just what they think is satisfactory in their interests. That is not going to serve the wider interests of grain farmers or of the Canadian economy. – Stephen Harper	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Then one man from a tiny community in Ijaw comes. He's not Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They can't bear it, he who pays the piper must dictate the tune, and the delta has been paying the piper for so very long. If they make war, we can make war. We have the capacity to take what's ours. – Mujahid Dokubo-Asari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The enemy is using the lever of sanctions to the hilt and their goal is to stop our people's progress, i believe that if we allow them to dictate to us on the nuclear issue, they will still keep the sanctions in place because what they are against is the very foundation of our revolution. – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” – Ansel Adams	added by BirdMan 9 years ago
Hormones dictate what your body does with food so if you’re screwing up your hormones with conventional meat, it can cause a lot of problems. – Sarah Gottfried	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is just a knee-jerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold. – Wayne Kaufman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is just a kneejerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold. – Wayne Kaufman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will not accept attempts to dictate unilateral, time-bound moves to us, i will say these things in the clearest manner. Even if there are dictates, we will stand up to them firmly. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In reality, many of the UK's double tax treaties with other countries dictate where profits can be taxed. – Toby Ryland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They are allowing the Sweden Democrats to dictate the terms of Swedish politics. – Prime Minister Stefan Lofven	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't think we can win on that, if we are not perceived as too far to the left, we can win. I think the South wants to be a part of mainstream America, politically and in every every other way. I think we play on that and let common sense dictate our positions. And it has to be done in concert with the business community. We have alienated a lot of the business community. The business community has a huge stake in maintaining a stable economic and social and educational environment. – William Winter	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sometimes bankers use business plans where everything gets rosy in the future. We might challenge that but we will never dictate how banks should solve that. – Korbinian Ibel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The German auto industry for Germany is the key industry, the key innovator, alternative drive systems are very important for us because they dictate how well the cars function, how their sustainability and environmental acceptability are and of course how well they sell. – Ulrich Eichhorn	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. – J. G. Ballard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them. – Anthon St Maarten	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. – Ansel Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think the misuse and the miseducation of the flag has pushed it to this point, why do we let hate groups dictate how we feel and how we live?

– Bill Chumley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have been working away behind the scenes to solve these problems. We had a meeting with HRW International. We have done everything we can to find answers to these questions, there's one thing we cannot do and that is to dictate to a sovereign state how to run its affairs.

– Patrick Hickey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a fitness instructor and online personality, people expect me to look a certain way. So when I take a selfie and people see that my butt isn’t huge and I don’t have a defined six-pack, they think there’s something wrong with me, the thing is—my physical appearance alone does not dictate how strong I am nor does it say anything about how good of a trainer I am. It’s frustrating when people try to align your worth by your looks.

– Blogilates Cassey Ho

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

While I had great respect for the military, they should not dictate political strategy, which is what's happening now.

– Richard Holbrooke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The choice is symbolic: the Likud led by me, that will continue to stand firmly for (Israel's) vital interests, compared with a left-wing government ... ready to accept any dictate.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But we understand, and it's important that everyone who's looking at this system understands, that this is an unusual situation where in the marketplace you have two large suppliers - the two big railway companies - where they have extraordinary market power, and we simply cannot accept outcomes where those two big companies would dictate to the market just what they think is satisfactory in their interests. That is not going to serve the wider interests of grain farmers or of the Canadian economy.

– Stephen Harper

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Then one man from a tiny community in Ijaw comes. He's not Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They can't bear it, he who pays the piper must dictate the tune, and the delta has been paying the piper for so very long. If they make war, we can make war. We have the capacity to take what's ours.

– Mujahid Dokubo-Asari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The enemy is using the lever of sanctions to the hilt and their goal is to stop our people's progress, i believe that if we allow them to dictate to us on the nuclear issue, they will still keep the sanctions in place because what they are against is the very foundation of our revolution.

– Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”

– Ansel Adams

added by BirdMan
9 years ago

Hormones dictate what your body does with food so if you’re screwing up your hormones with conventional meat, it can cause a lot of problems.

– Sarah Gottfried

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This is just a knee-jerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold.

– Wayne Kaufman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is just a kneejerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold.

– Wayne Kaufman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We will not accept attempts to dictate unilateral, time-bound moves to us, i will say these things in the clearest manner. Even if there are dictates, we will stand up to them firmly.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In reality, many of the UK's double tax treaties with other countries dictate where profits can be taxed.

– Toby Ryland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are allowing the Sweden Democrats to dictate the terms of Swedish politics.

– Prime Minister Stefan Lofven

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't think we can win on that, if we are not perceived as too far to the left, we can win. I think the South wants to be a part of mainstream America, politically and in every every other way. I think we play on that and let common sense dictate our positions. And it has to be done in concert with the business community. We have alienated a lot of the business community. The business community has a huge stake in maintaining a stable economic and social and educational environment.

– William Winter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sometimes bankers use business plans where everything gets rosy in the future. We might challenge that but we will never dictate how banks should solve that.

– Korbinian Ibel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The German auto industry for Germany is the key industry, the key innovator, alternative drive systems are very important for us because they dictate how well the cars function, how their sustainability and environmental acceptability are and of course how well they sell.

– Ulrich Eichhorn

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

– J. G. Ballard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them.

– Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

– Abraham Lincoln

added by anonymous
13 years ago

– Ansel Adams

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

– Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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