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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. James Buchan

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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions. James Fallows

World Prosperity Power Country Other Changes Everyone Unless Corporate Out Status Economic Price Toward Removing Knows Real Begins Going Move Chinese Realm Among

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned. James Fenton

Time People Language Some People Think Say Those Some Anglo-Saxon Shakespeare Poetry Between Learned Accept Because Continuity Traditions Begins Any Established Different Anyway Which Different Language English By The Time

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.' James Fenton

Today You Memory Will Free Prolonged Find Voice Poetry Open Free Verse Term Verse Begins Where Form Aftermath Places Modernism Even Orthodoxy Raised Raising Speech

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. James Thurber

Time Half Lasts Months Out About He Himself Calls His End Begins Banquet Average Sanity Speaker Two Sleep

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay. Jay Alan Sekulow

Justice Matter Delay Assume Responsibilities John John Roberts Weeks He Term New Supreme Roberts Call Supreme Court Court Without His Up Chief Chief Justice Begins Senate Duties Move Confirm Full Swiftly Now

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. Jay Leno

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear. Jay Parini

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. Jean Piaget

Knowledge Words World Other Immediate Purely Self Contact Practical Begins Stopped Whereas In Other Words Utilitarian Things External External World

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. Jean Rostand

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing. Jean Stapleton

Work Day Character You First Enough Extreme About Case Scene Know Piece Material Doing Go Up Begins Ends Where Script Might Chopped Film Flow Last Playing

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South. Jo Becker

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If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. John Bates Clark

Man Be True Isolation Living Would Would-Be Constitute He True Make Him Island Makes Trading Were His Ceases Begins Owner Clothing Literally Fruits Themselves Product Monarch Income Raises

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger

Alone Sense Begins Autobiography Being Form Being Alone Orphan

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan. John Boehner

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. John Lanchester

Alone Me Experience Thought Leave Leave Me Alone Begins Novel Image

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. John Updike

Pulse Philip Take Containing Mix Begins Room Whirl Noticed Roth

My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write. John Waters

Day Would Perfect Write Baltimore Five Begins Getting Newspapers Then

Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective. Jon Favreau

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. Jon Landau

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World Contrary Begins Precisely Ends Where Popular Belief

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Joseph Jacobs

History Say Purely Properly Almost Scientific Geographical Motive Discovery Begins Curiosity The History Of So-Called Might Cook Captain Whose

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