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They quickly started passing from hand to hand and operated something like currency. The government first tried to forbid their use, then a year or two later—and this became a familiar pattern in China—when it realized that it could not suppress them, switched gears and established a bureau empowered to issue such notes themselves.
~ David Graeber
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
~ Lucy Powell
Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
~ Joe Hill, NOS4A2
My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.
~ Jessica Mendoza
When you go a goal behind the pressure drops off you and you feel like you can play more so when we go ahead we need to be switched on and that is when we need leaders on the pitch.
~ Fabian Delph
I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.
~ Maura Tierney
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
~ Bill Toomey
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
~ Richard King
I really, really like Nicole Richie, and the only reason why I always bring her up is because I'm impressed with her style evolution. This is someone that came onto the scene that people didn't necessarily view as a style icon, and she completely switched up the game. And I like how she takes risks with fashion.
~ Tia Mowry
I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.
~ Jim Peebles
Once, in third grade, we switched classes and nobody knew until our mother stepped in.
~ Markieff Morris
Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.
~ Nell Newman
A Stanford graduate student told me that his wife and kids resisted going to church on Sundays because they dreaded encounters with a family of braggarts and bullies so much. Then his family switched to an earlier service that the despised family never attended: the student's wife and kids not only stopped resisting and complaining about going to church; everyone came back from church in far better moods. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on. They
~ Joe Hill
So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.
~ Peter Steele
Lansdale had been with Roxas earlier that same day, part of the president's press corps entourage, but about all he could find to say by way of eulogizing the fallen leader was, "now that I've switched to Chesterfields, he didn't bum Camels from me as he used to do.
~ Scott Anderson
in part because those countries have switched their foundational ideologies from ones that glorify zero-sum class and national struggle to ones that glorify positive-sum market cooperation.
~ John Brockman
Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination. He didn't just do comedy, he deconstructed it like it was a transistor set. He pulled out all the wires and switched them around, often in front of our very eyes.
~ Rhys Darby
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.
~ Sophie Kinsella
And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
~ George Orwell
then lost consciousness, and pitched sideways into the water. A grim-looking Alice switched off the wireless. The three
~ Emma Blair
These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
~ Atom Egoyan
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
So, Nero switched careers to what is called proprietary trading.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb