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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
War
Mistake
Remember
Lost
Defense
Secretary
Lies
Admitted
He
Knew
Along
Robert
Were
Covered
Years
Shock
Ended
After
Former
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Twenty
Lives
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Adolf Hitler
Cause
Own
Doubting
Other
Side
Admitted
Propaganda
Soon
Glimpse
Laid
Even
Right
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Inferiority
Fear
Thought
Admitted
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
Nicolas Chamfort
Soul
World
Before
Live
Must
Some
Admitted
Entirely
Parts
Which
Happily
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
Jefferson Davis
Government
Rights
People
Resume
Power
Birth
States
Has-Been
Admitted
Purposes
Been
Authority
Subsequently
Which
Proclaimed
Union
Bills
Right
It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.
John C. Calhoun
Increasing
Sides
Deficit
Must
Admitted
Borrowing
Scheme
Make
Make Up
Revenue
Prove
Continue
End
Up
Expenditures
In The End
If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.
Muhammadu Buhari
Life
Food
You
People
Money
Young
Group
Difficult
Starving
Minds
Members
Promise
Admitted
Fact
Mentors
Alluring
Know
Because
Answers
Offer
Fanaticism
While
Former
Young People
Your
Search
Why
Fundamentalism
Twist
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
Abraham Lincoln
Legal
People
Congress
Reclaim
States
Constantly
Admitted
Institution
Denied
Southern
Legal Right
Interfere
Right
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
Alexander Lukashenko
Me
Style
Rule
Characteristic
Admitted
Always
Authoritarian
Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
Alexandra Petri
Faith
Range
Those
Harvard
Religious
Admitted
More
Students
Vein
Come
Another
Does
Than
Person
Same
Just
Being
Available
Boast
Cappella
Who
Fun
Groups
Activities
Nearly
Dozen
Wide
Wide Range
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
Alexis Korner
Myself
Logical
Living
Out
Possible
Admitted
Given
Could
Never
Had
Suppose
Make
Always
Becoming
Intended
Blues
Reason
Ever
Playing
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Time
Matter
Admitted
Form
Modification
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
Amber Tamblyn
Time
Great
Man
Age
Women
Will
Seen
Single
Every
Think
Admitted
Great Movie
Almost
Crying
Talked
Single Man
Proud
Very
Any
Movie
Film
Fourth
Foreigners may be admitted to citizenship by naturalization, either collectively or individually. Collective naturalization may occur when a foreign territory and its inhabitants are transferred to the United States.
Charles A. Beard
Collective
States
Citizenship
Collectively
Admitted
Individually
Territory
Occur
Foreign
Foreigners
May
Transferred
Either
Inhabitants
United
United States
The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
Charlie Sykes
Work
Education
Made
Down
Too
Secondary
Secondary Education
Despite
Way
Unprepared
Admitted
Students
Inability
Many
Elementary
Level
All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.
Conrad Black
Other
Jewish State
President
State
Members
Admitted
Outset
Motion
Israel
Were
Truman
Ambassador
Subsequently
Stalin
Created
Jewish
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
Craig Brown
Good
Garden
Good Taste
Admitted
Seems
Only
Coloured
Idea
Over
Vulgar
Years
Discreet
Up
Taste
Grown
Grown-Up
Brightly
Flowers
President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.
David Limbaugh
Increases
President
President Obama
Obama
Admitted
Unsustainable
Course
Fix
Tax
Tax Increases
Amount
Medicare
When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Heart
Mind
Become
Spring
Right Place
Consider
Address
Harvard
Would
Admission
Admitted
Students
Am
Questions
Person
Get
Any
Want
Process
Place
Them
Ask
Each
Why
Right
Two
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride
Seen
Others
Ourselves
Rarely
Admitted
Sin
Readily
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August von Hayek
World
Events
Possible
Admitted
Facts
Demand
Occur
Real
Limits
Causes
Denied
Quite
The Real World
Real World
Which
Hardly
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
George Vecsey
Great
Lost
Charged
Athletes
Admitted
Joined
Armstrong
Were
Sins
Suspected
Legion
Lance Armstrong
Barred
Who
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken
Be True
Everyone
Admitted
True
Idea
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer
Secrecy
Intimate
Must
Admitted
Case
Absolute
Never
Allowed
Mere
Induced
Although
Go
Effective
Curiosity
Just
Anyone
Acquaintance
Persons
Ask
Many
Vague
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
History
Natural
Seen
Past
Action
Our
Those
Must
Admitted
Except
Employed
Know
Powers
Principle
Globe
Past History
Happening
Which
Explained
Now
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
James Randi
Faith
Woman
Cancer
Example
Admitted
Touched
Throat
He
Healed
Healer
She
Said
Forehead
Been
Quick
Where
Who
Her
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