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China's many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed.
Sun Yat-sen
Will
Nation
Completed
Only
Civilized
Highly
Make
Process
Transformed
China
Chinese
Then
Many
Need
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
Suzanne Vega
Writing
Civilized
Terribly
Lot
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Thor Heyerdahl
World
Military
Airplane
Security
Civilized
Neutral
Developed
Most
Permission
Still
Been
Denied
Governments
Surrounded
Friendly
Tiny
Nations
Anywhere
Republic
Land
Reasons
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.
Tom Chatfield
Learning
Problem
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Evolved
Find
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Solving
Civilized
Tens
Over
Stimulated
Stimulating
Years
Very
Intelligent
Problem-Solving
Certain
Certain Things
Beings
Things
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Tom McClintock
Free
Believe
Civilized
Prisoners
Hold
Societies
It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.
Tom Shales
Time
Remember
Smart
Imitation
Back
Once
TV
Hoped
Would
Some
Civilized
Develop
Cheap
Sophisticated
Alternative
Commercial
Public
Might
Far
Us
Hard
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Tony Randall
Government
Country
Every
State
Everyone
States
Classical
Civilized
Federal
Federal Government
Supported
Town
County
Theater
Should
United
United States
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella
World
September
States
Only
Civilized
Attack
Attacked
Civilized World
Understood
America
Stood
Against
Us
Speaker
United
United States
Britain
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
Vladimir Putin
Political
Path
Language
Settlement
Must
Diplomatic
Civilized
Force
Return
Stop
Using
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
Man
Civilized
She
Because
Still
Educated
Been
Than
Less
Largely
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius
Life
Design
Society
Everyone
Our
Guiding
Neither
Civilized
Civilized Society
Part
Simply
Stuff
Principle
Material
Affair
Integral
Integral Part
Nor
Intellectual
Necessary
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Become
Must
Civilized
Longer
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
Power
First
State
Only
Civilized
Principle
Contract
Legitimate
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
William O. Douglas
Good
Great
Struggle
Old
Tyranny
Men
Free
Civilized
Friend
Amendment
Decent
Old Friend
Landmarks
Good Friend
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.
Wolfman Jack
Life
People
World
Black
Made
Wish
Country
Every
Secretly
Those
Out
One Thing
Folks
Spirit
Civilized
Civilized World
Had
Part
Openly
Learned
Foreign
Domestic
American
Flair
Getting
The One Thing
Either
American Life
Thing
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Culture
Tough
Sets
Out
Spirit
Kitchen
Civilized
Crush
Last
In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
Rand Paul
People
Behavior
Will
Free
Free Society
Society
Those
Criticize
Abhorrent
Civilized
Who
Tolerate
Groups
Publicly
Belong
Associate
By the time Congress is even authorized to act after the President has launched nuclear weapons, there may no longer be a civilized world in which to do so.
Ted Lieu
Time
World
Congress
President
Weapons
Civilized
Civilized World
Longer
Authorized
May
After
Which
Act
Even
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
By The Time
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Lost
Civilized
Feet
Built
His
Coach
Use
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones - and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.
Donald Trump
Terrorism
World
Old
Will
Face
Radical
Earth
Alliance
Civilized
Civilized World
New
Islamic
Eradicate
New Ones
Form
Which
Against
Unite
Reinforce
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