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Pop taught me respect for my fellow man and reverence for my God. He taught me the importance of family and religion.
William E. Simon
God
Family
Religion
Me
Man
Respect
He
Importance
Fellow
Fellow Man
Reverence
Taught
Pop
While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.
William E. Simon
Life
He
Generous
Comfort
Always
His
While
Pop
Fortunate
Less
Lived
At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.
William E. Simon
Work
Myself
Soul
Commitment
School
Discipline
Mind
Nation
Later
Securities
Would
Rarely
Threw
Only
Both
Individual
Had
Come
School Years
Importance
Employment
Always
Years
Productive
Union
Displayed
Activity
Appreciate
It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
William E. Simon
Happiness
Government
Man
Respect
Woman
People
Country
Young
Every
Minimal
Seek
Learn
His
Essential
Young People
Interference
Her
Right
Every Man
The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.
William Hedgcock Webster
Challenge
Important
Think
High
Manageable
Stakes
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
William Hedgcock Webster
Will
Appropriate
Disciplinary
Authority
Use
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
William Hedgcock Webster
Work
People
Intelligence
Apt
More
Attentive
Who
Conscious
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
William J. Perry
War
Age
Face
Live
Changing
Driven
How
Information
Breakthroughs
Prepare
Technological
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
Yukiya Amano
History
Complicated
Long
Top
Long History
Issue
Iran
Very
Agenda
Nuclear
The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Future
Government
Together
Happy
People
Will
National
Own
Unity
Implement
Feet
For The People
Builds
Iraq
Iraqis
Gets
National Unity
Stand
Brings
Need
Program
We are not going to abandon Iraq.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Abandon
Iraq
Going
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Work
Together
Will
Year
Earn
Resources
Unproductive
Enable
Shift
Iraq
Iraqi
Iraqis
Subsidies
Work Together
Next
Productive
Next Year
Uses
Livelihood
I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
Zarin Mehta
Life
Success
Love
Music
Family
Training
My Life
Combining
Up
Very
Upbringing
Accountant
Achieved
Grew
Much
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.
Zarin Mehta
Change
Age
Important
Breath
Think
Air
Someone
New
Come
Also
Renewal
Fresh
Fresh Air
Cultural
Certain
Certain Age
Organizations
Things
I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
Zarin Mehta
Good
Food
You
Cooking
Own
Run
Would
Indian
Restaurant
Seem
Like
Still
Get
Which
Anywhere
Serving
Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
Zarin Mehta
Life
People
Too Many People
Past
Too
Get
Dwell
Many
Thing
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Home
India
I Feel
Absurd
Feel
Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Me
Money
Way
Say
Advances
Naive
Come
Terribly
Sounds
Came
Lot
Heartbroken
Going
Anything
Interest
Mean
Really
Certainly
Fundamentally
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Daily
Business
Free
Reflect
Living
Splendour
Because
Get
Being
Clutter
Naturally
Amidst
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Government
Management
Young
Difficult
Worlds
Channels
Corporations
Complex
TV
Lies
Join
Between
Hotels
Like
Leave
Governance
Thankless
Difference
Banks
Wherein
Newspapers
Fleas
Should
Whole
Bright
Why
Ever
Things
Two
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
People
Hotels
Cultural
Taste
Literary
Should
Bomb
Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Horrible
Delhi
Knows
Up
Anyone
Who
Grown
Grown-Up
It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
You
Money
Hassle
Find
More
Uncomfortable
Headache
Huge
Very
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
You
Become
More
Know
Likely
Terrorist
Languages
Less
My father had a great legacy and implemented important policies for Canada.
Caroline Mulroney
Great
Father
Important
Had
Implemented
Policies
Legacy
Canada
The more I knock on doors, the more I hear from people that they're angry. We need to deliver change in Ontario, and I'm running because I'm the only person who can defeat Kathleen Wynne.
Caroline Mulroney
Angry
Change
People
Doors
Defeat
Running
More
Only
Ontario
Deliver
Knock
Because
Hear
Person
Who
Need
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