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The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
God
Faith
Knowledge
Confidence
Ultimate
Ground
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
Charles Schwab
You
Business
Money
School
Important
Young
Pay
Analyst
Back
Out
Some
About
Had
Most
Most Important Thing
Understand
Got
Important Thing
Off
Getting
Just
The Most Important
Customer
Ask
Then
Really
Business School
Ground
Company
Stanford
Growth
Thing
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
Charles Vest
Education
Technology
Science
People
Made
Lost
Bit
Those
About
Had
Advanced
True
Come
Importance
Well
Frequently
Least
Educate
Been
Very
Efforts
Predictions
Might
Agency
Ground
I feel like the U.K. is a better breeding ground for pop, partially because the radio play is more broad and open to new ideas and sounds.
Charli XCX
Better
Broad
More
Open
Feel
New
Like
Ideas
Because
New Ideas
Sounds
Pop
Breeding
Ground
Radio
Play
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
Charlie Kaufman
Saying
Me
You
Sky
Painting
Everyone
Kind
Seems
Structure
Stuck
Like
Well
Always
Person
Screenplay
Interest
Really
Inherent
Ground
Thing
Here
Need
The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.
Charlie Rose
Fight
Somebody
Gone
Colleagues
Tell
Admiration
Someone
Highest
Studio
New
York
New York
Story
Places
Ground
Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.
Charlotte Rae
Responsibility
Parents
Own
Down
Rules
Must
Lay
Feet
Learn
Up
Children
Them
Stand
Ground
Help
Actions
Grow
Grow Up
Two
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
Charlotte Rampling
Heart
Must
Would
See
Never
Know
Limits
Explore
Ground
Grow
Desert
I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
Cherie Lunghi
Just Be
TV
Some
Rather
New
Like
Than
Maybe
Just
Break
Ground
Actress
Presenting
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
Chogyam Trungpa
People
World
Problems
Think
Too
Earth
Solving
Touching
Rather
Than
Often
Ground
Conquering
Based
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
Chris Hughes
Day
Change
People
Promises
Field
Those
Out
Deliver
Day-Out
Global
Institutions
Working
Working Day
Ground
Theory
Help
Strengthen
Millions
Millions Of People
Need
Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.
Chris Kilham
Coffee
Made
Rich
Finely
Steam
Caffeine
Concentrated
Very
Flavor
Ground
Expressing
It doesn't matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.
Chris Mullin
You
Matter
Space
Out
Carve
Tall
How
Hold
Your
Ground
More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
Chris Pine
Lost
Sit
Would
Touch
More
More Than Anything
Bubble
Never
Longer
Feet
Because
Celebrity
Than
Get
Want
Anything
Ground
Actor
Watch
Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
Chris Stapleton
You
People
Everybody
Otherwise
Guess
Way
Finding
Know
Got
Just
Common
Common Ground
Story
Might
Ground
In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
Christine Pelosi
Politics
Destruction
Better
Find
Able
Higher
Volunteers
Voters
Ambassador
Expect
Than
Personal
Candidates
Common
Being
Common Ground
Separates
Ground
Who
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Christy Turlington
Amazing
Meditation
Way
Oneself
Take
Simply
Go
Lotus
Just
Ground
Moment
Seated
If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
Chrysippus
Events
Fate
Cause
Would
Would-Be
All Things
Brought
About
Something
Through
Come
Untrue
Without
Were
Offered
Ground
Plausible
Things
I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
Chuck Feeney
Money
Giving
Out
Seeing
Something
Hospital
Come
Like
Became
Greater
Convinced
Ground
Satisfaction
Away
University
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
Claire McCaskill
Say
Would
Guys
Commander
Chief
Going
Listen
Ground
Ever
Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.
Claire Messud
Me
Walk
First
Sense
President
Obama
Find
He
Makes
Person
Any
Common
Common Ground
Anywhere
Room
Ground
Whose
Biography
As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
Claude Nicollier
Our
Waves
Adequately
Atmosphere
Part
Because
As Far As
Far
Transparent
Ground
Radio
Basically
Spectrum
I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.
Clayton M. Christensen
Corruption
Communism
People
Opportunities
Think
Society
Pulse
Say
Would
Corrupt
Finger
Emerging
Economy
Most
Very
Just
China
Deregulated
Ground
Many
Therefore
For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.
Clive Owen
People
Some People
Some
Tabloid
Thrown
Feeding
Happens
Ground
Event
I can beat people on the feet; I can beat people on the ground. It doesn't matter.
Colby Covington
People
Matter
Beat
Feet
Ground
Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
Colin Salmon
Future
Incredible
Wrestle
Scenario
HIV
Ground
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