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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
Fight
Down
Ghosts
Statues
Seems
Against
Lenin
Stalin
Harder
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz
Old
Criticism
Characteristic
Constant
Feature
Over
New
Tradition
Continuity
Contrast
Against
Modernity
Set
300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.
Offset
Will
Our
Hurdle
Tried
Hold
Biggest
Against
Us
In any game, you have to work to stay in it, especially away against a good team like Southampton. It's a fantastic club and one I've said on a few occasions Cardiff City would do well to emulate, both on and off the field.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Work
Good
You
Game
Few
Club
Field
On And Off
Would
City
Stay
Both
Like
Well
Occasions
Emulate
Said
Off
Any
Against
Fantastic
Team
Away
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
Oliver Ellsworth
Words
Language
Will
Men
Sentiment
Every
Indefinite
Charge
Neither
Composition
Brought
Imperfection
Arises
Perhaps
Ideas
Ambiguous
Same
Precisely
May
Human
Being
Against
Manner
Connect
Express
Necessarily
Two
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth
Government
Home
Liberty
National
Expectation
Controlling
Society
Our
Properties
Abroad
Unreasonable
Point
Combine
Force
Either
Against
Capable
Persons
Whole
Bringing
Defended
The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
Oliver North
Today
You
Phones
Somebody
Cell Phones
Emails
Telling
Rely
Terrorists
Up
Cell
Intercept
Cannot
Against
Sat
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Olivia Wilde
Experience
People
Compassion
Weakness
Admit
Something
More
Feel
Like
Until
Hold
Against
Then
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
Olivia Wilde
You
Odds
Going
Against
Choose
Actor
It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.
Olivier Giroud
Best
Competition
Nice
League
Because
Against
Really
Europe
Teams
Play
Champions
Champions League
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
Omar Bongo
Fight
Islam
Networks
Crusade
Terrorist
Against
International
Right
Imaginary
Associate
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Omar Bongo
Fight
Sustainable Development
Other
AIDS
States
Member
Promote
Devastation
Put
Contagious
Development
Armed
Undermine
Continent
Caused
End
Diseases
African
Order
Sustainable
Conflicts
Against
Act
Union
But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
Omar Bongo
People
Important
United Nations
Punished
Directly
Generally
Observe
Supposed
Impose
End
Up
Nations
Being
Regime
Against
Sanctions
Certain
Europe
United
Millions
Millions Of People
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
Orrin Hatch
Heroes
Tyranny
Pressure
Fighting
Our
East
Throughout
Taken
Put
Prospect
Terrorists
Stability
Decent
Middle
Middle East
Against
Region
Stand
Societies
Bring
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles
Myself
Lose
Pretty
Feel
Most
Protect
Against
Them
Things
Careful
Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.
Ory Okolloh
Success
Freedom
Innovation
Internet
Power
Press
Correlate
More
Economic
More Power
Individual
Attainment
Educational
Ultimately
Patents
Information
Against
Social
Choice
Each
Each Individual
Number
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
Oscar Robertson
Love
Today
Great
You
Great Things
Think
Guard
See
Some
Could
He
Nobody
Him
Spot
Greatest
Greats
Shock
Did
Against
Might
Who
Forward
Many
Things
Playing
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
You
World
Free
Positioning
Out
Throws
Footwork
Him
Learn
Box
Pass
Got
How
Shoot
Maybe
Against
Your
Play
Things
Necessary
Player
Saina is not someone special player that I have to win against. It's not like that I must beat her. She is one of the players.
P. V. Sindhu
Win
Must
Someone
Beat
Like
She
Against
Special
Her
Player
Players
I want to beat everyone I'm playing against.
P. V. Sindhu
Everyone
Beat
Want
Against
Playing
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Padma Lakshmi
Mom
Single
Young
Other
Kid
Those
Immigrant
India
City
New
Single Mom
Came
Cultures
Up
Very
America
York
New York
New York City
Influenced
Grew
Against
Really
Who
Each
I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
Pam Bondi
Government
Rights
Group
State
Consistently
General
Attorneys
Advocate
Proud
Amendment
Amendment Rights
American
Against
Who
Among
Second
Second Amendment
Bipartisan
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra
Man
Political
Minority
South Africa
Beginning
Young
Moral
Indian
Small
Developed
South
Discrimination
Mode
Africa
While
Against
Young Man
Century
Racial
Persuasion
Gandhi
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Activism
Based
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
Pankaj Mishra
Democracy
Money
Dictatorship
Egotistical
Solid
Given
Tactics
Students
Disagreements
Over
Were
Lot
Impression
May
Energetic
Against
Consensus
Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
Pankaj Mishra
Life
Religion
Past
France
Though
Laws
Blasphemy
Countries
Insult
Against
Public
Public Life
European
European Countries
Many
I have fun doing lighter roles, as I don't have to do anything against my emotions.
Pankaj Tripathi
Have Fun
Emotions
Lighter
Doing
Roles
Anything
Against
Fun
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