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And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
Jim Coleman
Sum
Greater
Parts
Than
Working
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
Jim Costa
Today
National
Before
President
Addiction
Despite
Our
Address
Stated
Security
Must
Threat
Previous
Greater
Foreign
Foreign Oil
Than
Efforts
National Security
Dependency
Oil
Ever
Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'
Jim Inhofe
Events
Weather
Extreme
Rise
More
Both
Emphatic
Global
Global Warming
Greater
Answer
Causing
Intensity
Warming
Sea
Levels
I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.
Jim Lampley
Positive
Life
Day
You
Son
Every Day
Hero
Every
Tremendous
Kids
Charge
Would
Would-Be
More
Could
Exciting
Know
Knowing
Greater
Privilege
Than
Get
Just
Anything
Mean
Who
Larry
Imagine
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
Government
Property
Decision
Become
Definition
Would
Eminent
Parks
Generate
Taken
Simply
Roads
Loophole
Greater
Revenue
Private
Domain
Private Property
Expect
Tax
Unfortunately
Public
Available
Manipulate
Land
Creates
Use
I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.
Jim Webb
Honor
Country
Way
Find
Greater
Than
Your
Notion
Serve
Raised
I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.
Joan Cusack
Crazy
You
Business
People
Cause
Think
Thinking
Else
Way
Someone
Highs
Like
Make
Greater
Were
Lot
Than
Person
Any
Psyche
Just
Your
Lows
Start
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
Good
Believe
Operate
Greater
Greater Good
Suspension
Ethical
Certain
Necessarily
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro
Character
Me
Painting
Minimum
Give
Attaining
Feel
Greater
Led
Maximum
Intensity
Which
Means
Even
Need
When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.
Joanna Going
Appreciation
Grateful
Culture
Beauty
Move On
Rich
Enough
Took
Cities
Boston
New
Like
Greater
Island
Am
Been
Offered
York
Childhood
Move
New York
Bigger
Rhode
Rhode Island
Gained
Places
Then
Granted
Eager
When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.
Joe Anderson
You
Sometimes
On-Screen
Out
See
Some
Something
Read
Greater
Than
Screen
Form
Subtleties
Script
Far
Stand
It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
Joe Kaeser
Today
Future
Good
Great
History
Important
Past
Most
Make
Greater
The Most Important
Even
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
Joe Slovo
Time
Socialism
Half
Party
Dramatic
Saw
Collapse
Crisis
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Since
Most
Greater
Governments
Undoubtedly
Than
Any
Communist
Communist Party
Europe
Last
It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive greater innovation, not only for short-term benefits and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary stability.
Johan Rockstrom
Innovation
People
Benefits
Wealth
Drive
Revolution
Benefit
Ensure
Solutions
Only
Could
Long-Term
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Also
Greater
Enable
Stability
Essential
Human
Sustainable
Short-Term
Planet
Planetary
Even
Fourth
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt
Truth
God
Spiritual
Truth Is
Better
Pride
Before
Others
Though
Gifts
Adorned
Remedy
Namely
Perhaps
Himself
Greater
None
Account
Than
Endowment
Against
Should
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun
Government
Together
People
Power
Consisting
Risen
Various
Vast
Powerful
Mass
Combined
Greater
Surplus
Up
Than
Banks
Themselves
Held
Interests
Many
Cohesive
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal
Simple
Mind
Sex
Complex
Ours
Must
Would
Something
Almost
Perhaps
Involved
Greater
Because
Than
Differ
Psychology
Much
Even
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
John Foxe
Wealth
Cause
Prisoner
Defence
Danger
Inquisition
Only
Greater
Condemnation
His
Suspicion
Little
Use
Deemed
Sufficient
Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.
John Francis Daley
You
Entertainment
Natural
World
Understanding
Type
Sides
Once
Say
Entertainment World
See
Able
Both
Both Sides
Could
Feels
Greater
Greater Understanding
Understand
How
Dialogue
Get
Going
Screenwriting
Really
Actor
Actually
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
John Hench
Life
Communicate
Losing
Power
Enormous
Other
Gave
Our
Kinds
Had
Studio
Know
Course
Greater
Because
Were
Than
Any
Any Other Place
Place
Skill
Who
Even
Now
Ever
Images
Need
Symbols
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
John Hutton
Technology
Together
Quality
Will
Understanding
Our
Resources
More
Higher
Allow
Higher Quality
Advances
Greater
Provide
Disease
Us
Workforce
Illness
Services
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
John Hutton
Travel
Stronger
Accountability
Local
Our
Direction
Tailored
Individually
New
New Direction
Greater
Efficiency
Personal
Personal Choice
Central
Public
Choice
Services
Set
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
John Lithgow
Challenge
Made
Danger
Broadway
Percentage
Variety
Tourists
Greater
Audience
Up
Offered
Being
Much
Now
Nearly
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.
John Mackey
Food
People
Seriously
Responsibility
Giving
Healthy
Our
Ability
Eating
About
Take
Greater
Access
Fresh
Fresh Food
Educate
Affordable
Them
Nourishing
Growing
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
John Mackey
Capitalism
Progress
System
Something
Had
Powerful
Conceived
Ideas
Most
Most Powerful
Greater
Human
Social
Aspire
Human Progress
Even
Cooperation
Ever
Compelling
Humans
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes
Progress
Possibility
Would
Foolish
Contemplate
Greater
Still
Far
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