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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius

Many [public accountants] not only work from home, but they can work from remote islands if they want. A lot of what we do is to go out and meet our clients, but once you've sat down and discussed with them their business plan you can do the actual work from any location.

Joe Bittner

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

Peta Wilson

I would think they could more easily absorb an additional 35 kids than we could handle a remote facility.

Martha Cramer

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Chris Hadfield

We have found explosives, vehicles for car bombs, remote control bombs and so on. After the investigation, the two Pakistanis have confessed they had been trained in Pakistan for the suicide explosion.

Assadullah Khalid

[The security hole allows for] full blown remote code execution, ... If a user browses to a bad Web site, malicious software can be installed on their PC without their knowledge.

Tom Ferris

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Hannes Alfven

This plays into the strategy of promoting mobility, enabling users to access the MCI network from any remote location.

Will Stofega

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock

My dad was pretty into model airplanes, and then someone got him a remote-controlled car for his birthday. It's a pretty big pastime where I come from.

Justin Heinly

We still have villages in very remote areas that have not been accessed.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

The Madrid bombers used cell phones, and there is talk of these remote triggering devices being used in London and Bali.

Howard Melamed

Working in film lets me travel, which is one of my passions. I like to visit remote places and see real people.

Lena Headey

[Disaster coverage] feeds a demographic of grief junkies, who are tapping away at the remote control like a rat tapping for crack pellets, ... Not only does misery love company, it also makes for compelling television.

Matthew Felling

We consider that the gradual nature of the reform provides a fairly protected environment for European manufacturers over the next four years, and we continue to believe that full deregulation in the EU market for sugar production and processing is remote.

Olaf Toelke

Together, Outrigger and Hawaiian have established a higher standard for traveling to and from Hawaii with this new remote check-in service.

Blaine Miyasato

It is much easier to get a remote access Trojan into a company than break down a firewall.

Sal Viveros

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

We'd provide the needles and vaccines for immunization, but some districts wouldn't have enough money for operations. They reached nearby areas but left out remote areas. So you'd find mothers who don't even know about immunization.

Jane Soepardi

Today, many Europeans see the EU as a remote bureaucracy built by the political elite; a process unconnected with ordinary people, ... They want greater openness in this process and, quite rightly, they want to have their say in EU policymaking.

Margot Wallstrom

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Ambrose Bierce

That's how they decided to deal with it. 'I'll call you every 15 minutes to see if you're alive.' There's an acknowledgement from everyone that the border officers need to be armed, especially in these remote locations.

Ron Moran

I would say that 75 percent to 80 percent of the clients I work with choose the wrong place for their files. They tuck it away in some remote location like a spare bedroom or in a basement.

Julie Morgenstern

World's most remote movie theater.

John Pierson

We believe this is most likely a non-credible type situation. However, the pilot went ahead and chose to cease his departure and went ahead and placed the plane in a remote area.

Jennifer Peppin

In the last month, ... we've had homicides over the remote, over a dress - you are wearing my brown silk dress. We have had one over dish soap. We have had one over you were mean-mugging me. You were looking at me funny.

Anne E. Schwartz

The possibilities are endless with IP Communications over a satellite connection. Just about any type of business that has remote operations can benefit.

Brian Sims

The smugglers are moving the groups laterally in Mexico and then crossing them in very desolate, remote places along the Southwest border. And in many cases, individuals will perish in the desert.

Mario Villarreal

The area that it's spreading into is much more remote and further away from any houses, so at this point it's not a threat to any property.

Wendy Rosenbach

They realize how remote and cold it is and they chicken out and they move.

Delise Denham

To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.

John Andrews

It's more than 30 minutes to cappuccino. The really remote ranches are really for a special kind of person.

Billy Long

Get up out of your chair and go change the channel instead of using the remote control.

Donita Stewart

The range and seriousness of the vulnerabilities patched in this update cause us great concern. The database products alone include 37 vulnerabilities, many rated as easily exploitable and some potentially allowing remote database access. Oracle has not yet experienced a mass security exploit, but this does not mean that one will never occur.

Rich Mogull

I like living in Indiana. There is a little more space. It's a lot like the remote suburban place that I grew up. Living in the city is too expensive.

Kathy Mash

A true remote execution has a tiny footprint and won't need much of a system.

Jeff Tarter

It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years.

Haraldur Sigurdsson

We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we remain monopolists. But there are markets where competition with mobile and alternative fixed-line operators is very high. And these are firstly major Russian cities.

Valery Yashin

There's a lot of remote-controlling going on. You have here all the people who don't want to expose their families to violence, kidnapping, bad schools, etc.

Joost Hiltermann

Now end users can get the full desktop experience from remote locations, using the PC, thin clients, and mobile devices, with applications available on a central server.

Jerry Chen

We make fun of him all the time. Rod's a caveman. He barely knows how to use a cell phone. Leave him in a house by himself, and there's a good chance that he won't know how to turn on the TV because he can't figure out the remote.

Joe Barry

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Sarah Orne Jewett

He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.

Gerald Shuster

In Nigeria, we do not eat raw meat like in some parts of the world. Therefore the chance of picking up any infection is quite remote. I want to assure you that in chicken, when cooked, no avian influenza virus can survive.

Dora Akunyili

I have not heard of any injuries. Some of the areas these storms passed through are pretty remote.

Tim Marshall

Companies need to offer employees home and remote access in order to compete in the business world and get the most out of them.

James Edwards

Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.

Holdbrook Arthur

DVDs have new material, they offer insight and 'insider' information and they allow access to the proverbial 'favorite scenes' without excessive remote manipulation.

Jim Farrelly

The scale of the data in the remote office is enormous and the solutions for doing it are terrible; no one is happy with the way remote office backup is done.

Kris Hagerman

I think there is a remote chance of GM being removed only because the Dow people probably don't necessarily like having companies in there with a junk bond rating.

Chuck Carlson

[Despite persistent rumors that are still circulating, Devil Rays GM Chuck LaMar said he was] not close at all ... I wouldn't even term it remote.

Aubrey Huff

We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally. This is a global connection. As we change ocean properties through climate change, remote consequences are likely to arise ? we may not even know what they are yet.

Mercedes Pascual

The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.

Kundan Aryal

Do you open a limited branch? Or will you have a loan officer that goes out to a remote area? ... One thing that this product can do is be a leading indicator of whether you should open a branch in a new area.

Alenka Grealish

I've worked in this area for about 15 years. It's beautiful, but it's remote.

Thomas Payne

It's amazing. I was 17, and even though I looked like an adult, there was a total lack of rights. Legally, they could kidnap me and take me to a remote island without my consent.

Monty Lapica

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Keith Mckenzie

Experienced travelers can be complacent. Having done lots of travel to remote places they think something is not going to happen to them because it has not done before.

Mark Hyde

There was an extensive discussion on the possibility of the disease spreading into the EU via migratory birds that might pose a risk of spreading the virus. The group concluded that the immediate risk is probably remote or low.

Philip Tod

It's a remote area, and there were always people wishing to take advantage of other people.

David Dixon

People who are looking for grand oratory in a speech like this should keep the remote handy.

Michael Waldman

Pay phones provide a valuable public service, ... Not everyone can afford a wireless phone or can get access to their wireless service in remote areas. For a significant portion of the population pay phones are a necessity.

Janee Briesemeister

When you go through an experience like that, you have a whole new perspective on life. The little things that you used to worry over ? finding the remote control, something like that ? you don't worry about.

Marvin Oliver's

I wanted them to see how it took place in World War II. They were horrified. They say it couldn't happen again, but it is, in remote areas. I gave them some places to keep in mind.

Joann Bertelo

It's a high alert. Every region is on alert so if at any time it occurs in remote areas, we are ready.

Siti Fadillah Supari

There are capabilities of wireless camera systems and images that can be transmitted to remote locations. That is an option that is being explored.

Officer Vaughan Dumas

I do think, though, the chances of that happening are remote because we have the state veterinarian, who is keeping an eye out ... horsemen who are more vigilant, and we've got these precautions in place.

Jim Gates

We plan to swap the doctors so they won't get bored, particularly those living in remote areas. Hopefully the program will start this year.

Fenno Tahalele

My Remote is an innovative Internet phone feature that none of our competitors can match, and one that our customers are absolutely going to love. With My Remote, our customers will no longer have to memorize calling card numbers, risk using work phones for long distance calls or pay the outrageous international long distance rates that normally apply to cell phones.

Alan Creighton

Clearly the SEC is worried about companies abusing this. Companies will need to support to their auditors, and potentially to the SEC, how they determined at what point redemption becomes remote or the obligation ceases.

Doug Reynolds

I think the prospects for a hard landing for the market are still pretty remote but my concern would be that the economy is becoming increasingly reliant on the housing market.

Jim Power

We have found explosives, vehicles for car bombs, remote-control bombs, and so on.

Assadullah Khalid

American Chartered Bank is demonstrating the business case for remote capture. The solution allows the bank to expand its footprint and capture share in new markets.

Dave Youngerman

With these aircraft they will fly up into the remote regions that have been most devastated by the recent disaster.

Frank Hall

Nine of 10 dogs want to go up and play with the snake because they are intrigued. That's why so many get bitten. I use the remote collar to imprint the fact that the snake hurts.

Patrick Callaghan

In the clinical trials that are going on at the moment we are looking at patient perception -- what they feel about a robot coming in and talking to them -- and remote examinations.

Parv Sains

This flight is our second to the area in as many days and we have already started aid distribution in many areas, with more trucks on the road to the most remote areas.

Shaista Aziz

Believe me, I don't think (Allen leaving) is a remote possibility. We're too pleased with the way things are going.

Bill Rowe

Any technique that improves the performance of radiologists is helpful, but this also means that mammograms can be taken in remote places that are underserved by the medical community.

Bradley J. Lucier

Remote airport check-in with luggage service in these four hotels lets our guests spend a few extra hours enjoying all that Waikiki has to offer, not to mention a more leisurely airport experience when they bypass lines.

Rob Solomon

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron

I think the major oil companies are going to be looking for more oil in more remote areas. The more remote the area, the better it is for helicopters.

Bob Pope

It's a pretty remote site. I think some of the factors that we would -- we would look at, and I think these will be incorporated in the options that are presented, are what (are) the conditions of the munitions? What is the proliferation risk we believe they pose?

Peter Flory

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Ann Veneman

If you are talking about new steam-cracking ability in the foreseeable future-between now and 2010-I don't think it is even a remote possibility.

Mark Eramo

We also have an advantage in the intuitiveness of all of our software. Everything from Mac OS X Server Admin and Server Monitor all the way to ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) make the tasks that people have to do a lot easier.

Alex Grossman

The vulnerability itself has been known about for a while, but it was only a problem for a denial-of-service attack that would sometimes cause IE to crash. Up until now, no one knew how to mark the code and find it in memory to execute a remote code attack.

Johannes Ullrich

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

Prince Charles

I don't think the ministry is trying to conceal the cases, ... The cases occurred in a remote and isolated area, and the symptoms might be similar to many other diseases, so it's not easy to determine the reasons.

Roy Wadia

We don't have anything that's been developed specifically for a mine collapse, because it's such a remote possibility.

Robert Supko

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Richard Perle

This would be the first state-owned (remote operation) effort.

Brett Wallace

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Aaron Brown

I don't expect (their numbers) to go to zero, because of support from the local community, and the numbers of children living in remote locations.

Mark Dewalt

We are fortunate that this was a fairly remote area.

Gary Rainwater

This isn't a sweeps stunt. This is real. I do have a remote control so when I think I'm funny [and] deserve applause I hit this button, and when I think I'm funny [and deserve laughs], I hit this button.

Tony Danza

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

Dick Morris

It's not out of the question. It's remote, but it is a chance.

Robbie Kaine

The 'twilight' of Saudi Arabian oil envisioned in this book is not a remote fantasy.

Matthew Simmons

It helps from a management perspective if you can see your remote staff.

Michael Lord

Our staff on the ground has worked hard to establish strong relationships with local organizations, community leaders, national government and the military. This has given us credibility and access to remote areas.

Chris Mcdonald

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

Over and over and over, we hear the exact same reason they need an original remote. The PIP [picture in picture] doesn't work. The input doesn't work.

Michael Monsky

I think we called in the army without much delay but the area is remote and deployment takes time.

Tarun Gogoi

What we do is provide a remote support service. With the customer's permission, we connect to their computer and we fix problems while they watch us.

Ted Werth

I still believe direct-attached storage is the most reliable technology, but it's not realistic given the size of our data storage, ... ISCSI should enable us to give our remote locations growth capacity we couldn't provide before, at a reasonable price.

Alan Hunt

In the remote area where we're located in old historic wood buildings, fire protection is vital. Response times are our biggest concerns.

Rob Wells

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Serge Daney

Exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sun-baked highway makes a mockery of the right to assemble.

Leslie Cagan

Mitsubishi has a parental lock. If that somehow gets locked up on your TV, if you don't have the remote control, you can throw the TV in the garbage.

Michael Monsky

There's a lot of use in more remote areas.

Lynette Willie

VARs are showing confidence in us to deliver high-availability features and remote-management software available before only on higher-end systems.

Stuart Mcrae

We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack.

Ayub Khan

It was a great opportunity to show what can be done from a remote location.

Kamren Colson

We could have picked some place in a remote location, but that defeats the purpose of being in an area close to the middle of the county.

John Hutchinson

It is very remote it will rain. Most of it will stay north.

Stan Wasowski

Thank God it took place in a remote area where there appears to be no tremendous damage or personal injuries.

Richard Riordan

Very remote risk.

Heidi Murkoff

Here in the Central Valley, we have migrants who come from the most remote parts of Mexico, places where radio is the medium. We're using the latest technology to try to help people swap news and advice across a political border.

Hugo Morales

Their motivations have been impugned, often by those with only a remote connection to their father, ... No one should dispute Claudia and John Henry's devotion to their father. In fact, those closest to Ted Williams -- his dearest friends, his doctors and those he chose personally to oversee his estate -- consistently affirm it.

Bob Goldman

As more and more people telecommute, that is the hardest group to keep updated and control [via] security policies [given that] remote users don't necessarily log in every day.

Sal Viveros

The prospect of an interest-rate-hike lifeline for the currency has become even more remote. The coming week will be the most important for the currency of any in the next three months.

Craig Ferguson

The likelihood of that is remote because this is one relationship where ... you don't have difficulty in reconciling principle and practice or the vital national interests with values.

Ronen Sen

This new partnership further stresses the need for A/V installers to offer a pristine power source with IP-addressable remote diagnostics that can support audio/video components as part of a Control4 IP-based system.

Dennis Mariasis

We're seeing the automated battlefield, but we're not the ones who are in technological control. The enemy is. They're killing us with remote-detonated IEDs. It's like they're fighting a war by technological proxy. But that's what we're supposed to be doing.

Bruce Hoffman

I think I have been looking forward to being a head coach since I was old enough to hold a remote control. It's something that I've always known that I've wanted to do.

Ronny Thompson

If the average New Yorker is concerned about being murdered in a random crime, the odds of that happening are really remote.

Michael Farrell

We all talked about it this (yesterday) morning, ... A 4-2 lead for the Senators going into the third? We all changed the channel. Now, it's 'don't touch that remote.'

Eric Desjardins

Drilling multiple oil and gas (wells) would not only wreck the solitude of these remote areas, but would leave man-made scars on the landscape for centuries.

Erik Molvar

Roads through previously remote rain forests create easy access for commercial hunters to find and transport endangered forest animals to city markets.

Erick Brownstein

You don't see major corporations abandoning their e-mail infrastructure, but they are beginning to seek outsourcing to handle things like remote mail and calendaring, ... Messaging Online.

Eric Arnum

We designed Apple Remote Desktop 3 to take advantage of the innovations we introduced in Mac OS X Tiger.

Eric Zelenka

The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provides evidence that core geometrical knowledge is a universal constituent of the human mind.

Elizabeth Spelke

It's such a long fire and the head of the fire is in a very remote and a hard area.

Edward Callahan