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When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
Robert Kraft
Jealousy
You
Sometimes
Envy
Everybody
Well
Motives
Legitimate
After
Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.
Milos Zeman
Death
Terrorism
Eyes
People
Cause
Innocent
Innocent People
Sees
Supports
Terrorist
Legitimate
Anyone
Means
Who
Uses
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
George Washington Carver
World
Distinct
Out
Having
Individual
Through
Come
Him
Without
Passed
Leaving
Go
Any
Behind
Legitimate
Reasons
Right
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison
Government
People
Power
Several
Constitutional
Only
Charter
Branches
Legitimate
Hold
Which
Them
Derived
Fountain
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone
Capitalism
Class
Ruling
Ruling Class
Legitimate
Racket
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse
Service
Business
People
Profit
Purpose
Well
Provide
Legitimate
Product
Profitable
Need
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
Hope
Nature
Survival
Our
Earth
Only
Remains
Renewal
Cherish
Legitimate
Foster
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
Menachem Begin
Exist
Legitimacy
Legitimate
Therefore
Need
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin
Partner
Respecting
Ability
Diplomatic
Rather
Compromise
Taking
Toward
Politeness
Account
Legitimate
Interests
Your
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI
Death
War
Abortion
Diversity
Penalty
Moral
Moral Issues
About
Weight
Catholics
Opinion
Waging
Issues
Death Penalty
Same
May
Legitimate
Regard
Euthanasia
Even
Among
Applying
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren
Luxury
Own
Every
Ruined
States
Brought
Only
Excessive
Consumes
He
Almost
Individuals
Check
Empires
His
Effectual
Labor
Affords
Often
Legitimate
Bankruptcy
Which
Us
Paying
Now
Universal
Necessity
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
Bill Gates
You
People
Few
Filter
Enough
Those
Out
Be Careful
Something
Never
Volume
Between
Message
Repetition
Very
Close
Get
Sending
Few People
Done
Just
Difference
Being
Legitimate
Want
Spam
Being Done
Interested
Low
Might
Stranger
Level
Things
Careful
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen
Yourself
Single
Aim
Above
Purpose
Unreservedly
Devote
Legitimate
Useful
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
James Madison
Alone
Constitution
Nation
Sense
Entirely
Propriety
Accepted
Concur
Legitimate
Which
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick
Knowledge
Fruit
Past
Field
Criminal
Bite
Though
Kind
Security
Thrill
Purposes
Could
Hacking
Forbidden
Because
Curiosity
Get
Legitimate
In The Past
Interesting
Public
Skill
Working
Speaker
Used
Even
Now
India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Member
Security
Security Council
India
Council
Permanent
Becoming
Legitimate
Right
Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.
Benjamin Wittes
Great
Political
Control
Virtually
Extremist
Distinguished
Though
Members
Religious
Identical
Also
Well
Ideologies
Go
Cults
Legitimate
Use
Organizations
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
Carl Icahn
You
Strategy
No-One
Investment
Vendetta
Answer
Legitimate
Anything
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
Charles Kennedy
Rights
Community
Human Rights
Intervene
States
Circumstances
Systematically
Some
Individual
Between
Abuse
Well
Within
Question
May
Human
Legitimate
Whether
Conflicts
International
International Community
Raises
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.
Dick Cheney
Government
Problem
Financial
Society
Only
Federal
Federal Reserve
Got
Fix
Role
Legitimate
Agencies
Regulator
Mechanism
Reserve
Treasury
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
Eugene Jarvis
Only
Computer
Computers
Legitimate
Use
Games
Play
It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.
Frank Pierson
Together
Experience
Lost
Think
Our
Our Lives
Relevance
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Something
Had
Share
Talk
Felt
Were
Walked
Going
Where
Legitimate
Movie
Theater
Meaning
Used
Away
Lives
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie
You
Struggle
Censorship
Military
Press
Fact
Along
Like
Without
Go
Were
Covering
Reporters
Any
Situations
In Fact
Legitimate
Right
British
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Nicolas Chamfort
Easier
Some
Some Things
Than
Legalize
Legitimate
Things
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
Noam Chomsky
Wikileaks
Secret
Out
See
Come
Legitimate
Anything
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille
Force
Gentleness
Where
Legitimate
Avail
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