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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

If it's purely economic, it could be a great channel for people to find work.

Paul Johnston

Many of the deepest and most engaging questions that we grapple with about the nature of the universe have their origins in our purely religious quest for meaning.

John D. Barrow

This legislation is purely about providing E.P.A. the clarity and certainty it will need down the road to ensure a timely and effective response.

Bill Holbrook

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a lovely love song -- 'It was surely purely chemistry' -- about her husband Denis and other key people like Ronald Reagan.

Naomi Cooke

At some point, what started out as a claim to get back on the police force came out purely for monetary (settlement).

David Minkin

This was a concealed explosive device that was left on piles of LPG tanks. This was purely to sow terror.

Raymundo Ferrer

I'd like to be next to Judy Dench purely because I think she might get me a part as a Bond villain. I think I would be a good villain.

Bruce Forsyth

Too many follow a 'me too' policy or purely a cost saving attitude when considering investment in enterprise applications.

Teresa Jones

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure. I thought the house would be O.K. When they were fairly adamant about staying, I said, 'All right.

James Maxey

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

There was a question of lameness in this horse a few days prior. There is a feeling that this may be a broken pelvis. This is purely a precautionary measure as we've tried to take all along. We've tried to take extra measures.

Lou Raffetto

If it was purely left to private enterprise, this wouldn't get off the ground. But when you add it all up, we believe there are potentially revenue streams that are worthy of our investment.

Patrick Mcdougal

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure.

James Maxey

It's purely based on geology. Leon County has the proper geology and oil fields to make this work.

Michael Parks

To make a decision on your home on a purely financial basis makes no sense. Will your kids have to change schools? Will your rental have enough room for all your things?

Pamela Liebman

It's purely precautionary. I always said that if bird flu got as far as Germany, I would put the birds inside.

Derrick Coyle

The condition is not the selling feature of this home. The location is purely the selling feature.

Kathleen Prior

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Martin Gardner

I don't think there's going to be any integration here; there may be some technology they can use, but this is purely a power play. It's a very good deal for the investors [a 60 percent share price premium], but unfortunately not a good deal for many Maxtor employees.

John Monroe

If you look at this from a purely financial stand point, this is helpful because it will not be taking additional (money) from the general budget.

Barry Williams

I don't think it would be an option that would go down well with the fans purely because it is the home of Hibernian.

John Borthwick

It looks like [the shortfall] was purely in the fixed-income area.

Michael Flanagan

You can't tell me that some of these lawyers aren't motivated purely by greed.

Gretchen Schaefer

The decision to move forward on a criminal investigation is purely under the sound judgment of law enforcement agencies along with prosecutors. Just because a case is referred doesn't mean it will be prosecuted.

Arif Alikhan

Her research, travel to Taiwan and publications are purely academic -- nothing political.

Xue Donghua

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

R. E. Hellmund

We are still selling plasma, a few products, but our focus is purely on LCD. The future is LCD. That's our decision.

Fujio Nishida

For us, it's become our most important race. But it's February. The European teams could see this as purely a training race because guys are gearing up for the Tour de France.

Robin Zellner

We are not going to find the person responsible for this here. I came for purely personal reasons.

Dennis Barry

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

The Democratic legislators are going to have to explain why they took out a competent, Democratic ... director purely because they are focused on getting this driver's license bill for undocumented workers. It's a prime example of Democratic lawmakers playing politics as opposed to focusing on good public policy.

Margita Thompson

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Francois Truffaut

It's purely conjecture. Most people who moved out here already understood they'd have to drive a minimum of 6 miles to get to any gas station or store.

Penny Riccio

The problem is you've got to take something out to put in a new kind of fuel. If we were looking at this purely in economic terms, we wouldn't even be looking at it.

Jeff Benedict

It's a mistake a lot of advertisers make when you go purely for entertainment or shock and forget about the brand. It's all about the product.

Patrick Knoll

I am absolutely desperate to win, purely to see Jeremy Clarkson's face as I do a little celebratory conga on stage.

Piers Morgan

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Jean Giraudoux

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

Beatrice Hinkle

We are especially concerned that senior Islamic scholars will be barred from the UK purely on the basis of media witch-hunts orchestrated by pro-Israeli elements.

Inayat Bunglawala

NOLS had an impact in two ways. They broadened the debate beyond purely environmental concerns like clean air and water, to include jobs and tourism.

Peter Aengst

This is purely because of pressure from the Australian government.

Lutfi Hakim

The big problem here is that people see this purely in terms of either-or. That's not what it's about. This is about opening up a whole new set of tools and a whole new set of opportunities in the range between the classroom and the distance learning experience.

Randall Rothenberg

I don't think there's going to be any integration here. There may be some technology they can use, but this is purely a power play.

John Monroe

That was purely a unilateral decision by Microsoft.

Michael Morris

We're going to have to change. We've been purely a music company, and if we don't change, we'll die. Our whole focus has to change or we become irrelevant.

Ted Cohen

The good news is that the Dominican Republic is, from purely a cost perspective, easier to develop and traverse than the French Alps.

Scott Berman

With the admitted benefit of hindsight and from a purely public-health perspective, it is clear that whatever planning did take place was grievously in error.

Richard Horton

I have picked a Chinese film at a Tibetan film festival purely for the breathtaking special effects and not for any political reason.

Lobsang Wangyal

What's really bothering and frustrating is that other public entities can do it, but because of purely political reasons [ASU] can't.

Casey Self

It isn't a demand issue. There will be some turbulence near-term based purely on component delivery issues that are beyond Apple's control.

Bill Fearnley

It's purely rhetorical. In order to have these [oil] contracts, you have to have a lot of people invest in them and most of those people are in places such as New York and London.

Roger Diwan

We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happening in the same way in every place.

Ruth Hubbard

From a purely fundamental basis, the market shouldn't be within $20 of the crude price that we're seeing. But people are reluctant to sell.

Aaron Kildow

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine

Mr. Paulson seems to have gotten the message that shareholder assets ought not to be used for his environmental interests that he has previously acknowledged to be purely personal. But we still want to know what happened on the Chilean land deal.

Tom Borelli

When I started watching it, it purely was for entertainment because I didn't know if I would like it. Now, I watch it once for entertainment and immediately watch it again and take notes with my laptop.

Bryan Jones

All the choices are made just purely on what seems like it would be fun. We don't always want to grow things. I think we're at a point where we feel pretty comfortable if we can keep things about the same.

Jack Johnson

The decision was purely mine.

Gaylen Freeman

Future subdivisions are predictions. They are purely speculative.

Wade Valentino

I feel heavy pressure. I don't think the setback will influence me at home, but I hope I can ignore the home crowd and purely focus on the game.

Ding Junhui

So it's a very seasonal activity - and it would be hard for most people to make their income purely on that.

Matt Bitonti

I'm a major Spurs fan, but this appeals to the business side of me. I'm buying purely as an investment, not to spend holidays in, and I certainly wouldn't want to live there.

Gary O'neil

We're looking at the possibility of having a statewide total fire ban tomorrow and Sunday purely because of the hot weather.

Rebel Talbert

It is a purely technical thing.

Tom Janssen

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

George Farquhar

It was obvious that the people had massively made a choice, and that we needed to make sure that choice was respected. No foreign power sat at the discussion. The solution was found purely among Haitians.

Michel Brunache

These bills are purely political and do nothing to address health care policy.

Amy Hill

This was a concealed explosive device that was left on piles of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanks. This was purely to sow terror.

Raymundo Ferrer

Some districts see them as purely a money item, and they lose sight of their importance. Money for office hours needs to be gradually built into a budget.

Julie Ivey

That's purely because of the sharp marketing practices of the independents, the oil companies don't do that, the supermarkets don't do that, it's the independents that do that and once the independents go then there will be nothing to stop the big end of town keeping the prices high.

Ron Bowden

It's a purely political decision. It is scandalous that France managed to pressure Egypt.

Martin Besieux

It's just purely political, a Republican political move to try and capture the moment.

John Mitchell Mason

It's not purely a god game in that respect.

Tim Letourneau

The mistake is purely on their (the ACDP) side. It is not right for them to accuse us of being part of it. That is unfair.

Courtney Sampson

Once you subscribe, our interest is purely your happiness.

Reed Hastings

Earnings have been much better than we expected, so I'm guessing the Nasdaq situation is purely a result of Dell cutting its outlook going forward.

Scott Wren

Today, you find quilts that are purely utilitarian and others that are purely for display. It's a craft that is very, very accessible. Anybody can buy fabric and sew it together.

Maren Lindberg

It becomes, therefore, the most important of all considerations with what character we invest in the Universal Mind; for since our relation to it is purely subjective it will infallibly bear to us exactly that character which we impress upon it; in other words it will be to us exactly what we believe it to be.

Thomas Troward

We chose the shoes not on performance or durability or comfort, because we can't really judge those kinds of things, but purely on their visual excitement, how beautiful they look.

Aaron Betsky

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Cecil Beaton

It was purely coincidental that these cases resolved within one week.

Gary Robb

I hope to be firmly ensconced in the dug-out in a purely managerial capacity tonight.

Leigh Cooper

It's very difficult to tease out the difference between purely physical illnesses and psychological illnesses that manifest themselves in real physical symptoms.

Adewale Troutman

They're looking at it purely from a traffic flow standpoint. We look at it as an opportunity to improve access to the East End.

Rod Blackstone

The method we have presented is not a replacement for embryonic stem cells. The advantages these offer are purely scientific ones.

Kevin Eggan

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Oskar Kokoschka

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Ronnie Thompson

There has been a belief that Christmas trading was strong. For now, however, it's purely anecdotal. We have no hard numbers to go on. We'll get those next week.

Ian Mcdougal

We see buying opportunities. On a purely yield basis, we prefer Treasuries over European bonds. The spread will continue to widen.

Tadashi Tsukaguchi

I am leaving Celtic purely for personal reasons and I am extremely sorry to be departing in such circumstances.

Martin O'neill

I understand that people are conflicted and clearly see this as a vote of conscience, but from a purely political point of view, the Democrat activist base has long been concerned that our party is too accommodating with Bush.

Mark Mellman

It's purely the earnings numbers. Sentiment was negative going into the numbers, with a widespread expectation there would be a miss -- including us.

Mark Mahaney

This is a purely a bilateral issue between the United States and North Korea. The less people interfere with the problem, I think, the better for the solution.

Nana Sutresna

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Alan Moore

Oh, I'm outraged, I see this as a purely political maneuver by the U.S. government and the Drug Czar. It's political pressure.

Libby Davies

They are purely a symbol of rugged individualism. They're a symbol of power but instead of being military, you are free to ride off into the sunset.

Valerie Steele

Blish is the first example of our plans to develop a series of purely digital marketplaces aimed at the growing number of consumers who demand immediate access to high quality content.

Paul Gleason

And it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.

William Herschel

In some respects, economics is purely a way of thinking, a form of religion if you will, a philosophical base as to how one should approach the world and he believed in this approach.

Geoff Bump

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Eric Gill

The market's reaction is purely psychological.

Richard Geist

If you look at having children as a purely financial decision, we'd have zero-population growth real fast.

Patricia Jennerjohn

This is purely an attempt to do some good theatre, commission new writing, adapt the classics and to do our own thing.

Ewan Mcgregor