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There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
Peer Steinbruck
Seriously
Own
Deficits
Worst
Out
Would
Case
More
Stuck
Taken
Failings
Demands
Make
Acceptable
Well-Meaning
Dealing
Test
Greece
Quicksand
Greeks
Get
Place
Interest
Paid
Euro
Zone
The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
Peter Milligan
Love
Writing
Old
Otherwise
Meet
Bit
Battered
Guy
Point
Through
He
Failings
Perhaps
Know
Him
Been
His
Vertigo
Than
Same
Younger
Aging
Less
Using
Sod
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
Peter Morgan
Dramatist
Nixon
Failings
Particular
Self-Destruction
How
Were
His
Led
Human
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Downfall
Thing
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Pierre Nicole
Hide
Others
Our
Latter
Ourselves
Seek
Attempt
Failings
Most
Them
Successful
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch
Men
Way
Faults
Moral
City
Habits
Individuals
Failings
Induced
Practices
Making
Private
Private Lives
Quicker
Than
Public
Far
Large
Lives
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake
Religion
Science
People
Some People
Other
Some
Both
Failings
Exhibit
Human
Dishonest
Exploitative
Incompetent
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
Spike Jonze
Relationship
Feelings
Depend
Ability
About
Entirely
Failings
Talk
Your
Strengths
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Theodore Dalrymple
People
Parents
Our
Alike
Object
Blamed
Failings
Failures
Perhaps
Most
Frequently
Common
Who
Resentment
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
Thomas Woods
Government
Own
Sector
Fact
Habit
Blaming
Advances
Taking
Failings
Private
Private Sector
Owe
In Fact
While
Credit
Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.
Tim O'Brien
Man
People
Beneath
Secret
Unlike
Secrets
Minnesota
Stay
Allow
Disappear
Veil
Failings
New
Talked
Chicago
Did
York
New York
Numbers
The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.
Erik Prince
Service
Leadership
Failure
Blindly
Fall
Congress
Military
Complete
Unable
Failings
Mission
Falls
Trying
American
Irregular
Afghanistan
Warfare
Personnel
Shoulders
Fund
Adapt
If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.
Jess Phillips
Success
Myself
Reflection
Big
Think
Would
Inside
Promotion
Failings
Got
Friend
Them
Congratulate
Painfully
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