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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy
Law
Community
Every
Society
Criminal
Kind
Law Enforcement
Insists
True
Equally
Gets
Enforcement
Deserves
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
Relationship
Man
Be Happy
Woman
Happy
Human Being
Insists
Perfectly
She
How
Were
Normal
Expected
Human
Being
Who
Her
Treating
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
You
Man
Regret
Before
Must
Seeing
Insists
Perfect
Never
He
Clearness
Accept
Decide
Who
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle
Good
Rights
Own
Others
High
Insists
Rather
Only
Remembers
Than
Gracefully
Breeding
Good Breeding
Differs
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Albert Finney
You
Old
Changes
Tells
Give
Insists
More
Never
He
Want
Stories
After
While
Then
Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.
Amy Wax
Freedom
Debate
Action
Other
Jews
Progressive
Favored
Punishments
Rigorous
Status
Threats
Insists
Academy
Policies
Opinion
Accompanied
Been
Left
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Candor
Which
Decline
Hegemony
Standards
Harmed
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno
Religion
You
Thought
Picture
Big
Believe
Thought Process
Hurdle
Strongly
Insists
Through
Never
Part
Never Forget
Over
Becomes
Intellectual
Jump
Very
Forget
Quite
Decide
Process
Then
Your
Whole
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Cynthia Nixon
Time
Me
Better
Resting
Too
Girlfriend
Insists
Having
Demands
She
Housework
Am
Leave
Than
Movie
Anything
Then
Much
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Watch
When someone insists that you watch a show that's already been on for a few seasons, they're basically saying, 'Hey, you're not doing anything for the next five weeks, are you? Because have I got a plan for you every single night! It's 'Weeds!''
Emily V. Gordon
Saying
You
Single
Few
Every
Hey
Someone
Insists
Weeds
Weeks
Because
Got
Single Night
Doing
Been
Five
Anything
Plan
Next
Show
Seasons
Watch
Basically
Night
Every Single Night
To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.
Eric Metaxas
You
Strict
Research
Fraught
Embryos
Darwinian
Someone
Insists
Supports
Particular
Schools
Advocate
Climate
Labeled
Legislation
Often
Just
Upset
Ethically
Means
Teaching
Who
Orthodoxy
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
Etgar Keret
Me
Giving
Guided
Astronaut
Admit
About
Insists
Students
Tours
Feel
New
Like
Make
Talking
Times
Just
Stories
Landed
Planet
Inhabitants
Who
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis Gates
Poverty
Case
Insists
Simply
Escape
Anyone
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Right
In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
Jane Hirshfield
Life
You
Whatever
Visibility
Out
Dream
Dream Life
About
Insists
Deliberately
Come
Look
House
Itself
Trying
After
Night
Set
A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.
Joe Lonsdale
Technology
Courage
Culture
Honor
Duty
Humility
Virtue
Mine
Sector
Insists
Developed
Leaders
Concern
Call
Might
Deep
Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.
Juergen Teller
Mother
Try
Will
Extremely
Photograph
Exactly
Exactly What
Minute
Impatient
Insists
Only
Knowing
She
Doing
Normally
Whenever
Stand
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth
Care
Doctors
Rate
Insists
Accept
Provide
Afford
Cannot
Reimbursement
Medicare
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
Peter Greenaway
Else
Must
Someone
Insists
Writes
Read
Diary
Anybody
Who
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker
Nowadays
Insists
Misery
Longer
Loves
Company
My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.
Sai Pallavi
Women
Financial
Mother
Independence
Degree
Medicine
Completed
Must
Insists
Which
Why
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Terry Eagleton
Truth
Truth Is
Insists
Institutional
Deconstruction
Illusory
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
Valerie Harper
Me
Comeback
Cancer
Worst
Bad
See
Insists
Having
Tenacious
Tour
No-One
Reminds
Performer
Return
Although
Making
Doing
Encore
Very
Going
Wants
Engagement
Who
I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.
Wilbur Smith
Me
Old
Wife
Mind
Healthy
Believe
Insists
Absolutely
Take
She
Exercise
Am
Years
Than
Younger
Regular
Body
Breeds
Now
Her
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
Rand Paul
Will
Nation
Punished
Must
Russia
Insists
Putin
Budapest
Like
Learn
Isolate
Rogue
Acting
Violating
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
People
Joy
World
Some
Insists
Know
None
Happiest
Happiest People
Satisfaction
Things
Necessary
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