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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
Justice
Kind
Compact
Harm
Harmed
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
Truth
Freedom
Enemy
Society
Our
Worst
Majority
Compact
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason
Government
Good
Safety
Community
Every
Society
Ought
Kind
Civil
General
General Good
Calculated
Compact
Therefore
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
William T. Vollmann
Myself
Good
Me
Change
Try
Important
Just Be
Think
Otherwise
Way
About
Write
Fair
Also
Readers
Exercise
Concise
Repeating
Very
Just
Different
Which
Compact
Fun
Different Things
Good Exercise
Things
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
Lee Hall
Life
You
Theatre
Unfinished
Important
Stage
Live
Else
Everyone
Unless
Everyone Else
Enterprise
Complications
Through
Writer
Shared
Shares
Performance
Audience
Always
Trying
Manager
Whether
Compact
Live Performance
Express
Actor
Specific
Play
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
Abigail Breslin
Time
You
Long
Ways
TV
More
Hour
Like
Because
Making
Lot
Quickly
Than
Move
Different
Movie
Movies
Much
Really
Working
Compact
Shows
I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.
Aerin Lauder
Woman
Every
Think
Liquid
Whether
Should
Compact
Using
Foundation
I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
Anna Friel
Healthy
Baby
Bouncing
Most
She
Very
Size
Lovely
Compact
Right
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
Barton Gellman
Country
Enriched
Tried
Plutonium
Scattered
More
Developing
Highly
Same
Sites
Storage
After
Uranium
Across
Production
Compact
Pakistan
Dozens
Recently
For me, what makes Liverpool special is that they are a team that works very well on the lines, very compact, in which everyone attacks and defends.
Bojan Krkic
Me
Defends
Everyone
Attacks
Well
Makes
Lines
Very
Which
Team
Special
Compact
Works
Liverpool
I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get.
Chris Sullivan
Love
Good
You
Style
Television
Kind
More
Tight
Get
Episodes
Compact
Seasons
Thinner
Two
British
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
Christine Pelosi
Work
Hard Work
President
Franklin
Promise
Security
Retirement
Retirement Security
Provides
Reflected
Rewards
Social
Roosevelt
Hard
Compact
Social Security
I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.
Edward Felten
Protection
Problems
Think
Resolved
Disc
Compact
Copy
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
Etgar Keret
Way
Say
Complex
Simplest
Most
Very
Want
Stories
Them
Compact
Things
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
Freeman Dyson
Government
Needs
Technology
World
Power
Fusion
Small
Except
Could
Price
Leading
Nobody
Make
Source
Existing
Huge
Afford
Where
Centralized
Flexible
Electricity
Compact
Program
Needed
Cain Velasquez - he is a good puncher. He is very compact. He's strong. He's very smart. He's a good fighter. He's a warrior.
Gennady Golovkin
Good
Strong
Smart
Fighter
Warrior
He
Very
Compact
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
Gerald R. Ford
First
Duty
Address
Unprecedented
Chat
Feel
Countrymen
Talk
Make
Campaign
Friends
Just
Little
Straight
Compact
Among
Speech
The Health Care Compact is a way for states to protect their residents from the top-down, one-size-fits-all health care 'solutions' that have been imposed from Washington D.C., including Obamacare.
James Lankford
Health
Care
Way
States
Solutions
Obamacare
One-Size-Fits-All
Protect
Health Care
Imposed
Been
Compact
Including
Washington
Residents
The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
James Lankford
Health
Needs
Better
Care
State
Meets
Oklahoma
System
Gives
Simply
Like
Health Care
Families
Option
Create
Compact
The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.
Janna Levin
Edge
Earth
Carries
Sheet
Infinite
Either
Compact
Connected
Ever
I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.
Jeffree Star
Beauty
Damp
Touch
Purse
Powder
Blender
Always
Lot
Up
Compact
Keep
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
Life
Conspiracy
Folk
Silent
Civilization
Comfortable
Up
Modern
Modern Life
Compact
Keep
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
John Ridley
Few
Living
Others
More
Excel
Through
Select
Days
Most
Than
While
Social
Themselves
Much
Compact
The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
Jose Mourinho
You
Strong
Achieve
Will
Say
No Chance
Inside
Outside
Know
How
Go
Close
Pitch
Want
Anything
Really
Team
Compact
Chance
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Joseph Brodsky
Daily
History
You
Ethics
Prison
Sense
Translation
Down
On The Contrary
Indeed
Abstract
Most
Terms
Shed
Makes
Metaphysics
Contrary
Whatnot
Them
Your
Notions
Compact
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
Laurie Graham
Woman
Every
Once
Considered
Small
Open
Check
Like
Sophisticated
Normal
Discreetly
Lipstick
Owned
Compact
Flip
Even
Things
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