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It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used.

It just makes sense. There's a massive program that has come to an end, and the state is doing the logical reduction in manpower.

It's the logical choice. Kordell was great for us last year. A great team member, understands the role. Hopefully there's enough carry-over for him, verbiagewise, that he can adjust quickly. It's a nice comfort zone having him back.

It's the logical consequence of a wrong decision,

It's logical thinking to think he could move a player he can move to get something, or else at the end of the year he doesn't get anything. There's a ton of guys in that boat.

It's a logical step. Our aim at the Bible Society is to get the Bible out there among the people and this is a very effective way of doing it.

It's a logical tidying up of their portfolio. With 2 billion euros worth of restructuring costs for Mercedes and Smart this year, it makes perfect sense.

It's not very exotic, ... It's straightforward, logical thinking. But people get stymied. I don't think people think about making their money work for them at all, let alone how to make their money work for them when it comes to retirement investing with their 401(k) and IRA.

It's not very exotic. It's straightforward, logical thinking. But people get stymied. I don't think people think about making their money work for them at all, let alone how to make their money work for them when it comes to retirement investing with their 401(k) and IRA.

It's not logical for a country to put the fate of its nation at the disposal of another country even if it's a friend. You can meet part of your fuel needs from abroad.

Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?

That's silly. Fritz took the CFO job because I asked him to, and the board approved. It was a logical progression in his career and I hope Fritz continues to develop and grow. One of my most important jobs as chairman of GM is to identify and grow talent.

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

It was deteriorating rapidly, so it's logical for NBC to grab it by the reins.

It's evident that taking into account the wealth accumulated in the many years of relations between both nations, it's logical that the ties between Cuba and Russia continue to develop,

It seems like a logical question or at least something to review.

It seems like a more logical swap. Part of the problem with the beach beyond all the title questions is the value of the property.

It seems logical that age-related deficits in behavior and brain function could be retarded by consuming foods high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. It seems that those with very intense color, like berry fruits and Concord grapes, are the most efficacious.

We think it's a very good way for the state to raise money for the school construction program. It's being done in at least 12 states now. There's not been any issues with it and it's a logical course for the state to pursue.

We expected that this would be the year of M&A activity. Companies have become healthier and are looking for means of growth. It's the logical next step to make acquisitions.

We're Division III and proud of it. Why ruin a good thing? We will have the best Division III facilities in the country, but that doesn't mean it's a logical step to Division I.

It's a great fear of many people that this is the logical result of some of the policies they have followed. I would like to think that's a situation that could be avoided.

It was the logical thing to do. The ball wasn't at the two-yard line; it was at the one. And we had previous success at the goal line (in that game). Fortunately for us it all worked out.

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actors course is set even before hes out of the cradle.

This was a very logical and nearly unanimous conclusion to over three years of work. This was the culmination of extensive research and due diligence. It was quite an ordeal.

This was certainly a logical assumption: soldiers and prostitutes, traditionally associated with sexual license and moral disorder, were among the first victims, and the connection became even closer when people noticed that the disease's first sores often turned up on the genital organs.

It made very logical sense both as a real estate asset and an ongoing business to own the club.

It makes for a logical brand extension of what Hallmark is and our core attributes. Do we need to do it to survive? No. Should we do it because there's a need? You got it.

It's like, you pay for your electricity and your water and other utilities as you use it, well that makes perfect sense. If you're going to use the road, it might cost you a bit, but if you don't want to use the road, you don't have to. I think that's a very logical way to pay for the construction of a new road.

It's a pretty hard situation for everybody, to be 30 games into the season and you have to change everything, but they were not going the right direction. It was the only logical thing that was going to happen. We all feel bad for coach Weiss, but it was probably time for changes. Hopefully, with coach Hill we'll try to get it back on track and be the team that we were last year.

It's a very logical addition to the digital camera.

There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.

This is the next logical step for 'Nightly' and NBC News, ... We know that just as fast as technology is changing, people's lives are changing too, and they expect our newscasts to keep up with those changes.

If it wishes to play that role, it is not logical not to allow transit.

I don't think there's anything logical about it at all. It should have happened at one of those earlier meetings.

I felt that the other way was not working, and I felt this was a logical direction for us to go. Even though it's not a finished product, and this isn't the trade where we're all of a sudden we're going to win the division, it is a good trade for both teams for where they were, which was underachieving.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

The Mellon transaction is a logical and low-risk extension of the Citizens franchise which is not only a good deal in its own right, but opens a range of additional options for us,

The market's recent rising pitch was a bit too fast, so it's logical that it takes a breather. But investors are still eager to buy on dips.

All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model. The next logical step is to deal with voice communication.

The logical choice is the one that was already selected. It has been there. He's been crowned.

The logical conclusion is that they may well be on the ship.

The logical consequence of that is that some consumers are buying things they don't want and others are buying things that they're not entirely clear what they're paying for. That's a market that's not working well for consumers and one that we should think about how it could work better.

Coincidence is logical.

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical,

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

Love is many things none of them logical.

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

The more you know, the more you see

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

We teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.