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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
William Samuel Johnson
Life
Art
Good
Great
Opportunity
Great Art
Our
Catch
Reach
Within
Improve
Golden
Moment
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
William Scranton
Government
Relationship
People
Value
State
Citizens
Direct
Affairs
Interest
Themselves
Display
Serve
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
William Weld
Government
Duty
Think
Minimum
Moral
Moral Duty
Theft
Taxation
Keep
Coercive
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
William Weld
Happiness
Government
Think
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Major
Major Role
Role
Us
Helping
Play
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
William Weld
Year
Increase
Earning
Security
Citizens
Voted
Fairness
Senator
Senior
Senior Citizens
Tax
Little
Social
Speaking
Who
Social Security
Income
Income Tax
Kerry
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
Time
Good
Sometimes
Will
Long
Lawyer
Sorry
Matters
Congress
Say
Small
Throw
Importance
Gentlemen
Deal
Am
Repeated
Off
Chicanery
Very
Precious
Precious Time
Who
Good Deal
Even
Wholly
Waste
Speeches
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
William Wilberforce
Degree
Country
Our
Must
Carrying
Would
Small
Civilization
Civilized
Vast
Suppose
Trade
Does
Very
Any
Africa
Should
Naturally
Help
Utterly
Extent
Slave
Consequence
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
William Wilberforce
Happiness
Man
Power
Duty
Every
Promote
True
Fellow
Fellow Creatures
His
Creatures
Utmost
Every Man
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.
Winnie Byanyima
Change
Conflict
Hatred
Met
Closed
Nationalism
Borders
Lies
Perils
Inequality
Climate
Climate Change
Being
Homes
Millions
Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.
Winnie Byanyima
Justice
Financial
Law
Accident
Design
Rule
Rule Of Law
Access
Happen
Transparency
Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this.
Winthrop Rockefeller
Today
Day
Great
Together
Healing
Nine
Great Day
Alive
Reconciliation
See
Only
Glad
Also
Rock
Coming
Little
Little Rock
Whole
Here
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh
Thoughts
Peace
World
Enemies
Evil
World Peace
Saved
Carnage
Pleasure
Find
Havoc
May
Forms
Creating
Deed
Who
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid
Evil
Focus
Perception
Society
Changed
Our
Morality
Only
Individual
Also
Because
Shifted
Ultimate
Discovered
Up
The Only Thing
Holocaust
Stand
Stand Up
Thing
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
Yair Lapid
Politics
Crime
Weakness
Only
Showing
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
Yanis Varoufakis
You
Simple
Negotiation
Enter
Possibility
Logic
Never
Conceive
Leaving
Dictates
Cannot
Preferable
Then
Even
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
Yanis Varoufakis
Good
Me
You
Advice
Everything
Once
About
Marxist
Scholar
Always
Still
Sounds
Optimistic
View
Things
Two
The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.
Yemi Osinbajo
World
Diversity
Fall
Unity
Those
Through
Most
Forge
Nations
Successful
Who
Thick
Thin
Secession
Lure
Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.
Yemi Osinbajo
Building
State
Economic
Economic Growth
Importance
Greater
Without
Greater Importance
Nation-Building
Sustainable
Even
Growth
You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
Zac Goldsmith
Faith
You
Business
Law
Will
Politicians
Says
Out
No Law
Know
Quite
Which
Turn
Really
Sleazy
I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
Zach Wamp
Soul
Together
Creative
Challenges
Face
Tough
Sacrifice
Believe
Willing
My Soul
Step
Up
Going
Unify
Really
Deep
Pull
In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
Zach Wamp
World
Post
Safety
Live
Our
Critical
Security
Take
Steps
Goods
Most
Industry
Proven
Mobile
Mode
Improve
Which
Flexible
Transporting
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
Zach Wamp
Work
Ending
Congress
Programs
Economy
Republicans
Taxes
Cutting
When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Zach Wamp
You
Heart
Speak
Better
Out
About
Something
Know
Quiet
Your
I'm running because we need change.
Zack Space
Change
Running
Because
Need
AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Healthy
Congress
Think
Intimidated
Consistently
Members
Solution
Opposed
Been
Lot
If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
War
Time
World
See
More
Prospect
Iran
Iraq
End
Up
Than
Role
America
Same
Afghanistan
Same Time
Anyone
Pakistan
Damaging
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