According to Hefti in a Billboard interview, Basie wanted to develop a stage band that could appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Ridenti, who cites the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration as an example of the first group and the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration as an example of the second, " we have it cyclically ".

According to Ivinskaya, " He did not believe that we would ever publish the manuscript here and felt he had no right to withhold a masterpiece from the world -- this would be an even greater crime.

According to Kenneth S. Rogoff, " Although the development of international capital markets was quite limited prior to 1800, we nevertheless catalog the numerous defaults of France, Portugal, Prussia, Spain, and the early Italian city-states.

According to one study, humans apply a rule of thumb by which we expect a significant event to have a significant cause.

According to Clement, it is through faith in Christ that we are enlightened and come to know God.

According to Hume, we reason inductively by associating constantly conjoined events, and it is the mental act of association that is the basis of our concept of causation.

According to deontology, we have a duty to act in a way that does those things that are inherently good as acts (" truth-telling " for example ), or follow an objectively obligatory rule ( as in rule utilitarianism ).

According to Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions, the negation operator in a singular sentence can take either wide or narrow scope: we distinguish between " some S is not P " ( where negation takes " narrow scope ") and " it is not the case that ' some S is P '" ( where negation takes " wide scope ").

According to astrophysicist Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson, " There are viable bacterial spores that have been found that are 40 million years old on Earth-and we know they're very hardened to radiation.

According to Avogadro ’ s law this volume is same for all ideal gases and if we consider ‘ n ’ moles of an ideal gas at STP, then the equation becomes

According to quantum mechanics, we can arrange our source so that each emitted pair occupies a quantum state called a spin singlet.

According to Eoin O ' Duffy, an Irish national corporatist, " before everything we must give a national lead to our people ... The first essential is national unity.

According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms ; all the aspects of life were centered on " lordship ", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly ( and anti-courtly ) literature, and a feudal economy.

According to the Buddhist point of view, once we have developed a genuine understanding of the causes of suffering, such as craving ( tanha ) and ignorance ( avijja ), then we can completely eradicate these causes and thus be free from suffering.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

According to former Indian diplomat G Parthasarathy, " only after we got nothing from the US did arms supplies from the Soviet Union to India commence ".

According to him, law is not entirely based on social facts, but includes the morally best justification for the institutional facts and practices that we intuitively regard as legal.

According to utilitarian thinkers including John Stuart Mill, justice is not as fundamental as we often think.

According to Entwistle, " That toilet was just dust all over the walls by the time we checked out.

According to Snowden, " When he finally offered to pay us, we went up and had a ball.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

According to Morita, how a person feels is important as a sensation and as an indicator for the present moment, but is uncontrollable: we don't create feelings, feelings happen to us.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

According to some fans, a tour guide explained that Jerry Jones invited a few professional soccer players to drop kick soccer balls to try to hit the screen.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to papers published by the United States Census Bureau, the world population hit 6. 5 billion ( 6, 500, 000, 000 ) on 24 February 2006.

According to Oxford County Sheriff deputy Matt Baker, King was hit from behind and some witnesses said the driver was not speeding, reckless, or drinking.

According to him, lacrosse was where he learned to protect himself from hard checks: " In those days you could be hit from behind in lacrosse, as well as cross-checked, so you had to learn how to roll body checks for self-protection.

According to Nesvorny and Jenniskens, when the dust grains are as small as about 150 micrometres in size, they will hit the Earth at an average speed of 14. 5 km / s, many as slowly as 12 km / s.

According to its Web site, MLB. com, Major League Baseball continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4, 191, though independent research has revealed that two of Cobb's hits were counted twice.

According to Rolling Stone, Love's unreleased 1973 LP " Black Beauty " will finally hit shelves on June 7, 2012, according to a statement released by the new label High Moon Records.

According to The Washington Post, PETA said an employee of the group filmed primates there being choked, hit, and denied medical attention when badly injured.

According to the chief newspaper of the town, The Tombstone Epitaph, " Wyatt Earp stood up and fired in rapid succession, as cool as a cucumber, and was not hit.

According to Baseball Digest, the Phillies were able to hit him because they knew when he was throwing the spitter.

According to the fourth century Italian writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon, the story continues as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.

According to the Seminole County Historical Society, it is believed that the name Iron City came about when a new well was being dug and hit a spot of iron ore.

According to FBI's data of 2007, its murder rate hit 101. 9 per population of 100, 000, surpassing that of cities such as Gary, Indiana ( 48. 3 per pop.

According to author Albert Goldman, Axton made writing Presley's first big hit one of her ambitions.

According to Mike Evans in his book Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul ( 2007 ), the singer developed his hit " What'd I Say " as part of an after-show jam in Brownsville in December 1958.

According to first hand accounts, none of the triples were hit to left field.

According to Cotton Incorporated, " Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 # 1 hit ' Forever in Blue Jeans ': 81 % of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue.

According to the July 14, 1967 Time magazine article, after " Don't Make Me Over " hit in 1962, she answered the call of her manager (" C ' mon, baby, you gotta go "), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her " Paris ' Black Pearl ," having been introduced on stage at Paris Olympia that year by Marlene Dietrich.

According to TV Guide, the show " was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes ".

According to Rusty Schweickart, the gravitational tractor method is also controversial because during the process of changing an asteroid's trajectory the point on Earth where it could most likely hit would be slowly shifted across different countries.

According to The Washington Post, PETA said an employee of the group filmed primates being choked, hit, and denied medical attention when badly injured.

According to Henson, " When we hit the editing, I did the first cut, and then George was heavily involved on bringing it to the final cut.