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Tag Name "Defer" (39)

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The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.
William J. Bernstein
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
Edward Young
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The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
Sam Brownback
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Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
Jim Gaffigan
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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
Mike Krzyzewski
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We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.
Edward Kennedy
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
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If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
Clayton Christensen
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I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.
Hilary Kornblith
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson
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If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some pain for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
Price Pritchett
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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
David Low
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xunzi
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Defer not charities till death for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
Francis Bacon
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
Benjamin Franklin
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