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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Portability should be the default.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

We either live with intention or exist by default.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.