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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
Martin Heidegger
Time
Other
Latter
Neither
Temporal
Determine
Something
Nor
Being
Former
Manner
Each
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
Rodrigo Duterte
Legal
Lawyer
Power
President
Prosecutor
Know
Limits
Authority
Former
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
T. E. Lawrence
World
Old
Victory
Men
Took
Our
Those
Ourselves
Out
Never
Dawned
Knew
New
Likeness
Came
Campaigns
New World
Achieved
Again
Former
Sparing
Old Men
Many
Lived
Lives
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
Saddam Hussein
Constitution
Rights
President
Say
Immunity
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Prosecution
Said
According
Former
Including
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man
Mind
Every
Stretched
Back
Dimensions
Never
Idea
New
New Idea
Sensation
Former
Then
Now
Now And Then
Shrinks
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
Ben Shapiro
Character
Man
Thug
Enemies
Out
Hunting
Running
Find
Photographs
Horses
Poisoning
Putin
Wrong
Massive
Himself
Tigers
His
End
Soviet
Fiction
Stages
Former
Themselves
Radioactive
Riding
Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
Bernie Sanders
Percent
Rates
Offered
Amendment
Senator
Former
Interest
Interest Rates
Cap
Al
Credit
Card
Credit Card
I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
History
Together
Regret
President
Step
Feel
Over
Terms
Proud
Years
Very
Privilege
Where
Former
Worked
Each
Necessary
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr
Revenge
Humiliation
Power
Defeat
Lust
Rulers
Out
Some
Wipe
Glory
Due
Been
Former
Wars
Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.
Joseph Stiglitz
Control
Too
President
Facade
Some
Russian
More
Remain
Putin
Leaders
Maintain
Countries
Like
Learned
How
Than
Authoritarian
Soviet
Predecessors
Former
Elections
Convincing
Communist
Who
Many
Including
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Man
Wealth
Fears
Poverty
Rich
Poor Man
Despised
Latter
He
Conceal
Wishes
His
Former
Poor
Rich Man
Lest
If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.
Muhammadu Buhari
Life
Food
You
People
Money
Young
Group
Difficult
Starving
Minds
Members
Promise
Admitted
Fact
Mentors
Alluring
Know
Because
Answers
Offer
Fanaticism
While
Former
Young People
Your
Search
Why
Fundamentalism
Twist
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins
Great
Compassion
Latter
Outgrow
Indifference
Both
Individual
He
Within
His
Former
Capable
Means
Nourish
Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly.
Rod Lurie
Battle
Will
Men
Party
Soldiers
Tend
Take
Almost
Obvious
Always
Been
Anti-War
Happens
Former
Who
Reasons
Gravitate
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
Susanna Kearsley
Smile
Myself
Day
You
Simple
Sometimes
Word
Single
Nothing
Pay
Ways
Harsh
Destroy
Thoughtful
Someone
Costs
Dividends
Know
Courteous
Firsthand
How
Waitress
Improve
Unexpected
Being
Former
Your
The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.
William Henry Bragg
Atoms
Changing
Though
Latter
Independent
Touch
Between
Partners
Another
Always
Continually
Existence
Liquid
Move
Difference
Whereas
Former
Molecules
Gas
I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
People
Comrades
Rich
White
Live
Way
Would
Betray
Never
Alongside
Where
Want
Grand
Suburb
Former
Roots
Choose
Many
Villa
Should Planned Parenthood be defunded, women will still have access to great quality healthcare. Speaking as a former Planned Parenthood director, I know that quality health care is best provided outside of Planned Parenthood.
Abby Johnson
Best
Health
Great
Director
Quality
Women
Care
Will
Parenthood
Outside
Know
Quality Health Care
Health Care
Access
Healthcare
Still
Provided
Former
Should
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Speaking
'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.
Abby Johnson
Truth
Abortion
Closed
Doors
Our
Tell
About
Parenthood
Network
Facilities
Voices
Stepping
Know
Because
None
Were
Clinic
Heard
America
Closed Doors
Behind
Stories
Happens
Former
Then
Really
Workers
Across
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Who
Forward
Deserve
Deserves
The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities.
Abby Johnson
Women
Abortion
Lawmakers
Laws
Facilities
Dirty
Fair
Protect
Testimony
Former
Create
Workers
Persuade
Help
It's my theory that one of the big reasons clinics have shut down - and will continue to shut down - is that former abortion workers have spoken out about their experiences in public and worked to testify against their former employers.
Abby Johnson
Abortion
Will
Big
Down
Out
About
Spoken
Employers
Testify
Continue
Clinics
Experiences
Former
Against
Public
Worked
Workers
Theory
Reasons
Shut
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
History
Liberty
Political
System
Ourselves
Tells
Find
Religious
Civil
Religious Liberty
More
Institutions
Political Institutions
Times
Than
Any
Essentially
The History Of
Ends
Which
Former
Us
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
Abraham Verghese
Life
Citizen
My Life
Most
Occasions
Becoming
Proud
Texan
American
Former
Moving
Profoundly
Recent
When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship.
Adam Cole
You
World
Honor
Punk
Back
Daniel
Joe
Ring
Guys
Bryan
Importance
Look
Built
Lineage
Goes
List
Whether
Former
World Championship
Champions
Championship
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
Adam Michnik
Work
Socialism
Face
Party
Spring
Revolution
Others
Members
About
Main
Between
Velvet
Mostly
Prague
Human
Difference
Wanted
Former
Human Face
Communist
Communist Party
Who
Bring
'Aashiqui 2' and 'Yeh Jawaani' were hit films, especially the former film in which I was the protagonist.
Aditya Roy Kapur
Films
Protagonist
Were
Hit
Which
Former
Film
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