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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson
Liberty
Way
Determines
Fact
Ultimately
Itself
Survives
Whether
Which
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
People
World
Smart
Impossible
Enough
Some
Feats
Know
Greatest
Were
Accomplished
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
Doug Larson
Admit
Superhuman
Err
Human
To Err Is Human
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Eduardo Galeano
Time
Best
Silence
Words
Money
Inflation
Language
Live
Worse
More
Terrible
Always
Than
Less
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
Eduardo Galeano
Democracy
Military
Name
Most
Coup
Done
Against
Wars
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
Eduardo Galeano
Day
Me
Bird
Made
Atoms
Say
Also
Because
Scientists
Human
Human Beings
Stories
Story
Little
Mean
Beings
Each
Each Day
Deserves
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow
Technology
Problem
Old
Will
Speed
Relations
Say
Compound
Computer
Merely
Between
How
End
Human
Human Beings
In The End
Newest
Confronted
Communicator
Beings
Oldest
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck
Time
Home
Me
Marriage
Job
Dinner
Husband
Numerous
Numerous Times
Has-Been
Relief
Status
Ring
Temptation
Wedding
Wedding Ring
Reminded
Parties
Go
Maternity
Go Home
Been
Source
Years
Led
Times
Done
Ward
Companion
Symbol
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck
Me
Gossip
National
Our
Say
Some
Pastime
National Pastime
Baseball
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck
Water
Mother
Out
Something
Only
Wrong
She
Cup
Soap
After
Measured
Who
Measuring
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck
Time
Sign
Take
Put
Practical
Years
Very
Children
Rooms
View
Each
Raising
Raising Children
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck
You
Men
Somewhere
Hair
Would
Directions
Chest
Stop
Asked
Your
Growing
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria
War
People
Money
Berlin Wall
Fall
Cold
Cold War
Collapse
Berlin
Only
Ideas
Fell
Also
Trade
Traditional
End
Wall
Soviet
Soviet Union
After
Union
Barrier
Barriers
Flow
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz
You
Dog
Pet
Wear
Tail
He
Owner
Sweater
Your
Suggest
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Fran Lebowitz
Death
Peace
Behavior
Otherwise
Unacceptable
Nervousness
Only
Attempt
Prove
Any
Thing
Inner
Inner Peace
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter
Work
Time
People
Some People
Some
Boss
Only
Horse
Only Time
Like
Them
Rides
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
Meetings
Worst
About
Football
America
Committee
Things
Violence
Two
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.
Hoda Kotb
Life
Work
You
Life Is A
Giving
Giving Up
Whatever
Add
Baby
Addiction
Strides
Way
Those
Total
Something
Through
Take
Taken
Toward
Steps
Over
Along
Terrible
Course
Amazed
Years
Goal
Up
Trying
Tiny
Whether
Little
Your
Illness
Series
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey
Life
Good
Heart
Sense Of Humor
Joy
Humor
Laughter
Sense
Down
Sign
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Armor
Person
Lips
Deep
Grasp
Needed
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. Thompson
Life
You
Dangerous
Two-Way
Two-Way Street
Weird
Weird Things
Pieces
Least
Go
Expect
Happen
Turn
Gambling
Your
Suddenly
Street
Things
Things Happen
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.
Hunter S. Thompson
Me
Natural
Personality
Passion
Doctors
Patient
Addictive
Say
High-Risk
Am
Against
Warned
Many
They Say
Slave
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
Hunter S. Thompson
Smile
Me
Man
Walk
Birds
Say
High
Tortured
See
High Places
Powerful
Sing
Am
Coming
Yes
Friends
Sir
Where
Children
Places
They Say
Seasons
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Life
Work
Failure
You
Sports
Losing
Will
Darkest
Trouble
Looking
Starts
Way
Find
Winning
Habit
Factors
Count
Feel
Most
Because
Becomes
Go
Normal
Same
Vices
Your
Even
Basic
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
Truth
Man
Dangerous
Power
Moral
Must
Rate
More
He
Idea
Make
Accept
Does
Tariff
Than
Fixing
Refuses
Should
Working
Who
Even
Position
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
Italo Calvino
Communication
Voice
Commands
Story
Ear
A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.
James May
Time
Old
Car
Tell
Classic
Something
Because
Just
Just Because
Us
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