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In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
Alexander Dale Oen
Best
Good
Control
Stage
Swimming
Virtually
Dancer
Abolish
About
Direction
Small
Motion
Occurs
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Movements
Across
Floats
Right
Level
Gravity
Right Direction
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
Angus Deaton
Poverty
Active
States
Citizens
Abolish
Global
Involved
Without
Effective
Little
Working
Growth
Chance
Needed
My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
Benjamin Watson
War
Sometimes
Thought
Beginning
Civil
Abolish
Born
About
Civil War
Had
Generations
His
Five
America
Just
Where
Grandfather
Slavery
If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
Bruce Kent
First
Weapons
Abolish
Call
First Thing
Israeli
Iran
Conference
Anxious
The First Thing
Really
International
Including
Nuclear
Thing
Nuclear Weapons
Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
Charles Boustany
Focus
Important
Before
Think
Statements
Abolish
About
Blanket
Like
Look
Making
Tax
Tax Code
IRS
Century
Should
Code
Start
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Before
Thirty
Presidency
States
Enslavement
Abolish
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Brutal
Until
Cuba
Lincoln
Continue
Years
African
Form
Descendants
Even
United
United States
Hardly
Slavery
When I did my research on this topic, I came to the startling conclusion that the Federal Reserve System does not need to be audited - it needs to be abolished.
G. Edward Griffin
Needs
Research
Topic
System
Abolish
Federal
Federal Reserve
Does
Conclusion
Came
Did
Reserve
Need
Startling
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Law
Abolish
Aristocracy
How
Any
Cannot
Acquire
Decree
Who
Actual
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
George Grey
People
Wealth
Possess
Consists
Abolish
Totally
Town
Principal
Concerned
Trade
Years
Chief
Being
Little
Many
Therefore
Slave
Chance
Number
Slaves
The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats.
George Osborne
Liberal
Sum
Liberal Democrats
Minister
Pension
Abolish
Instead
Steve
Democrat
Democrats
Said
Trying
Going
Former
Keep
Lump
Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.
Greg Grandin
Country
Nation
Brazil
Other
Enslaved
Abolish
More
Institution
Imported
Than
American
Any
African
Hemisphere
Last
The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it.
Guy Standing
Today
Class
Dangerous
Strong
Political
Old
Insecurity
Party
Become
Enough
Define
Able
Abolish
Both
Mass
Inequality
Conditions
Itself
Political Party
Wanting
Transformative
Which
Agendas
Rejecting
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
Ha-Joon Chang
Work
Service
Women
Society
Other
Liberating
Machine
Abolish
Structure
Goods
Household
Domestic
Helping
Washing
Washing Machine
Professions
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
James Buchan
History
First
Year
Those
Abolish
Feast
Had
Reminder
Identified
Well
Understood
Times
Commerce
Antiquity
Modern
Forgotten
Famine
Middle
Middle Ages
Modern Times
Ages
Cycle
Such A Thing
Who
Suddenly
Thing
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
Jesse Ventura
Problem
Political
Will
Country
Solution
Abolish
Democrat
Parties
Political Parties
Republican
Need
For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.
Justin Tranter
Me
Will
Looking
Think
Definitely
Abolish
Someone
Wrong
Always
Been
Amendment
Personally
Who
Second
Interpreting
Second Amendment
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
Karl Abraham
Patient
State
Abolish
General
Instincts
Partly
Normal
Whereas
Manic
Inhibition
Inhibitions
Even
Wholly
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
Kitty Kelley
War
Man
Important
White
White House
States
Civil
Abolish
Civil War
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Through
He
Most
House
Because
Occupy
Lincoln
Historians
Bloody
The Most Important
Agree
United
Ever
Slavery
Kept
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Ludwig von Mises
War
Men
Abolish
Civilization
Doomed
Succeed
Mankind
Now
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Maria Weston Chapman
Character
People
Nation
Compose
Abolish
Only
Higher
Done
Them
Who
Showing
Slavery
Raising
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.
Marisol Nichols
Believe
Alive
Abolish
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Well
Lincoln
Human
Unfortunately
Slavery
Like so many other grammar schools that flourished in Britain before they were abolished through a mix of ideology and political folly, Harrow County was a fiercely competitive institution, where all boys were taught to strive for excellence. It was precisely because of this demanding regime that results were so good.
Michael Portillo
Good
Political
Demanding
Ideology
Before
Other
Strive
Abolish
Folly
Excellence
Results
Through
Institution
Like
County
Schools
Because
Boy
Mix
Were
Precisely
Taught
Where
Grammar
Regime
Fiercely
Many
Competitive
Britain
While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
Newt Gingrich
Balance
Judiciary
Tool
Extreme
Circumstances
Possibilities
Abolish
Only
Federal
Check
Most
Courts
Blunt
While
Lower
Use
Many
Whose
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.
Ntozake Shange
Truth
Me
Honor
Big
Nothing
Enough
Abolish
No-One
Around
Go
Big Enough
Model
Role
Role Model
Aspire
Slavery
I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
Piet Mondrian
Time
Architecture
Abolish
Contemplation
Want
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.
Reid Hoffman
Death
Me
Justice
Ethics
Argument
Whatever
Ways
Penalty
Abolish
Morals
Only
Economic
Inspires
Take
Steps
Involve
Well
Death Penalty
Bureaucratic
Different
Convince
Should
Aspects
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