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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies
Tired
Man
Corruption
Money
Promises
Sheep
Politicians
Ruining
Crooked
Betray
Never
Like
Know
Hearing
Land
Us
Working
Working Man
Keep
Profits
Treating
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
Nature
Clouds
Dangerous
Amazing
Lonesome
Mountains
Crooked
Winding
Rise
Above
Leading
Most
Most Amazing
Trails
May
View
Your
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.
Adam Curtis
Today
You
Age
Police
Cheating
Greedy
Politicians
Energy
Lying
Our
Out-Of-Control
Security
Entertainers
Corrupt
Crooked
Features
Main
Journalists
Nobody
Look
Police Officers
Sinister
Trusts
Officers
Authority
Bankers
Children
Anyone
Wherever
Companies
Rotten
Media
Services
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda
God
Waters
Mingle
Though
Crooked
Having
Various
Tendencies
Lead
Sources
Different
Straight
Sea
Appear
Streams
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
Sick
Sleeping
Crooked
Wrinkle
Remake
Blanket
No-One
Known
Because
Bed
Mothers
Spread
Died
Children
After
Who
Ever
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
Government
Politicians
Other
Ours
Out
Mafia
Crooked
Compromised
Checks
Checks And Balances
Make
Balances
Improve
Officials
Bank
Businessmen
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya
You
Down
Trees
Would
See
Crooked
Left
Forest
Very
Going
Upright
While
Straight
Cut
Your
Standing
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time
You
World
Will
Become
Gone
Everything
Though
Crooked
Glance
Were
Just
Straight
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
Kurt Vonnegut
First
Nothing
Though
Crooked
More
Clause
Lawyers
Attack
Never
First Amendment
Lease
Were
Than
Amendment
Anywhere
Shortage
Eager
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
Tom Freston
Life
Work
You
Balance
Try
Path
Luck
Rarely
Crooked
Winding
More
Almost
Between
Make
Always
Happen
Interesting
Clumsy
Interesting Life
Vigorous
Usual
Things
Career
Career Path
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Made
Nothing
Out
Carved
Crooked
Entirely
Timber
Which
Straight
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
Death
Fate
Made
Dust
Down
State
Our
Must
Crooked
Kings
Shadows
Crown
Lays
Equal
Armour
His
Hand
Blood
Substantial
Tumble
Spade
Against
Poor
Icy
Things
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Alfred Nobel
People
Believe
Living
Crooked
Only
Lawyers
Make
Line
Straight
Straight Line
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon
Truth
Truth Is
Distance
Crooked
Points
Between
Always
Line
Lines
Which
Straight
Shortest
Straight Line
Shortest Distance
Many
Why
Two
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
Heather Locklear
Face
Girl
Mirror
Teen
Baby
Teeth
See
Crooked
Look
Braces
Up
Body
Skinny
Growing
Growing Up
No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover
Man
Crooked
Just
Public
Little
Public Man
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
Morning
Every
Pants
Nixon
Crooked
He
Him
His
Screw
Help
Servants
Needed
If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
M. C. Gainey
Crooked
Always
Cowboys
Convicts
Large
Play
Cop
I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Work
You
People
Strong
Increases
Everything
Possibilities
Crooked
About
More
Demented
Know
Because
Vulnerable
Offers
Get
Going
Just
Different
Want
Anything
Then
Your
Played
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
Apollonius of Tyana
Man
Seen
Beast
Wild
Tyrant
Arabia
India
Crooked
Horrible
Beasts
Armed
Heads
Know
How
Been
Nor
Accomplished
Than
Which
Commonly
Many
Ever
Travels
Wider
I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.
Austin Aries
Women
Men
Face
Hair
Nice
Our
Say
Ourselves
Kind
Crooked
Give
Angles
Facial
Like
Know
Look
Make
Makeup
Always
How
Real
Quite
Nose
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
Dontrelle Willis
Key
Sometimes
Year
Late
Out
Some
Crooked
About
Having
Park
Put
Days
Know
Go
Off
Up
Just
Establish
Where
Helpful
Early
Numbers
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
Edmond de Goncourt
Nation
Crooked
True
Individuals
French
Contrary
English
Who
Honest
I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!
Emma Roberts
Character
Me
Teeth
Crooked
Give
Give Me
Really
By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
Eric Schneiderman
Down
Crooked
Ripped
Employers
Make
Sure
Wage
Off
Cracking
Getting
Theft
Taxpayers
Workers
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger
Remember
Election
Face
Hateful
Posters
Crooked
Propaganda
Nose
Showing
Jewish
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