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Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.
John C. Calhoun
Time
Conflict
Strong
Revolution
Appropriate
Anarchy
States
Some
Constitutional
Case
Takes
Between
Leads
Wages
Command
Provision
Labor
Where
Process
Place
Which
Capital
Disorder
Necessarily
The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.
John F. Kerry
Change
Conflict
Competition
Political
Stress
Increase
Resource
Exacerbate
Threaten
Impacts
Risk
Economic
Instability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Undergoing
Climate
Climate Change
Line
Places
Social
Livelihood
The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.
John Fleming
Government
You
Rights
Conflict
Behavior
Type
Ability
Some
Case
Potentially
Participate
Force
Access
Does
Courts
Going
Currently
Should
Your
Conscience
Right
Necessarily
When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.
John Garfield
Me
Confidence
Struggle
Conflict
Will
Face
Believe
More
He
Himself
Because
Always
Loses
Accomplish
Want
Help
Actor
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
John H. Reagan
Conflict
Legitimate
Fruits
Produced
Now
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
John King
Noise
Conflict
People
Political
Our
Details
Insight
More
Also
Well
Context
Cover
Discourse
Lot
Which
Convinced
Fun
Travels
Thirst
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'
John Mackey
Conflict
Values
Liberal
Libertarian
Classical
Fact
Often
In Fact
Premise
Necessarily
Reject
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
John Major
Conflict
Field
Superb
Troops
Terms
Well
British
As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
John O. Brennan
Conflict
Law
Matter
Self-Defense
National
Our
States
Consistent
Response
Attacks
Armed
Taliban
Also
Force
Forces
May
Use
Inherent
International
International Law
United
United States
Right
Associated
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
John Olver
Future
Conflict
Training
Key
Police
Focus
Doctors
Build
Soldiers
Months
Sectarian
Civil
More
Remaining
Involvement
Police Officers
Judges
Robust
Iraq
Iraqi
End
Officers
Achieving
Should
Teachers
International
Elements
Needed
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz
War
Conflict
Reality
World
Rest
First
Country
Active
Every
Jewish State
State
Once
Minimal
Arab
Somehow
Hostage
Had
Idea
Israel
Years
Existence
Being
Held
Basis
Jewish
For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John le Carre
Conflict
Better
Political
Worse
Involved
Been
Description
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
Johnny Colt
Music
Me
Business
Conflict
Black
Journalist
Bass
Bass Player
Music Business
Spill
Gulf
Had
Knew
Journalism
New
Became
Left
Oil
Player
Started
Needed
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Jon Landau
Conflict
Drawn
Immortality
Between
Stability
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Search
Early
There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.
Jonathan Powell
Conflict
World
Solved
Cannot
Competition doesn't have to be conflict.
Joseph Dunford
Conflict
Competition
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.
Josh Radnor
Good
Conflict
Tears
Rage
Resolved
Other
Some
Good Story
Throughout
Aristotle
Demanded
Catharsis
Real
Heartache
Movie
Story
Should
Chord
Elements
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.
Joyce Carol Oates
Art
Conflict
People
Looking
Think
Dramatic
Out
Direction
Write
Another
Always
Am
Go
Event
Lives
Kernel
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
Juan Cole
Time
Conflict
People
Slight
East
Most
Were
Middle
Middle East
Interest
Interested
Public
Public Interest
Specialty
At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.
Julia Stiles
Life
You
Heart
Conflict
Emotions
Sometimes
Real Life
Difficult
Too
Drama
Out
Would
Real
Get
Any
Want
Confrontation
Acting
Play
For me, I see myself as a role model because, everything I do, there is a person somewhere who needs to hear me spread a message of non-violent conflict resolution.
KRS-One
Myself
Needs
Me
Conflict
Somewhere
Everything
See
Message
Because
Non-Violent
Spread
Hear
Model
Role
Person
Role Model
Who
Resolution
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
Kameron Hurley
You
Conflict
Will
Back
Status
Status Quo
Folks
Silent
Give
Voices
Comfortable
Always
Go
Lack
Quo
Them
Chance
I understand the risks associated with being a soldier. But I think as members of Congress, we should not intensify the chance that we'll have to commit troops to a military conflict unless it's absolutely necessary to defend the nation.
Keith Ellison
Risks
Conflict
Nation
Congress
Military
Think
Unless
Soldier
Members
Troops
Absolutely
Understand
Commit
Being
Should
Necessary
Chance
Defend
Associated
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
Ken Ham
Conflict
Book
People
School
Reading
Recognized
Evolutionary
High
High School
Between
Genesis
Ideas
Textbooks
Australia
Literal
Turning
Exposed
Creatures
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike
Life
God
Science
Acceptance
Commitment
Conflict
Power
Christianity
Both
Lays
Been
Personal
Often
Which
Groundwork
If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.
Kevin McCarthy
Conflict
Threat
One-Sided
Over
Know
Make
Very
Quickly
America
Gets
Should
Engage
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