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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
Jonathan Shapiro
Death
Sometimes
Despite
Say
Penalty
Laws
Compromise
Never
Arm
Like
Readers
Trade
Issues
Death Penalty
May
Views
Letters
People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.
Jonathan Zittrain
People
Benefits
First
States
See
First Amendment
Democratic
Content
Due
Fit
Amendment
May
Process
Electoral
Electoral Process
United
United States
Right
Present
Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.
Jonathan Zittrain
Today
Phone
Long
Thanks
Other
Lock
Tablet
Potential
Consumer
Him
Making
Branded
May
Customers
Choice
Hard
Switch
Apple
Her
Services
The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.
Jonathan Zittrain
Freedom
Internet
Made
Flame
Distinct
Launch
Easy
Also
May
Configuration
Everyone who survives cancer knows the victory against it may only be temporary. You know eventually that you might have to fight all over again. Almost 15 years after my mum's first bout of cancer, a second bout occurred. This time she needed an operation.
Jonny Bairstow
Time
You
Fight
Cancer
Victory
First
Everyone
Temporary
Only
Almost
Over
Know
She
Knows
Operation
Occurred
Years
Survives
May
After
Again
Against
Might
Who
Eventually
Mum
Second
Needed
Now and again, you may be picking a pass or two in behind, making something happen, but when we're attacking - especially at Liverpool - I'm focusing on protection, being disciplined, being careful, worrying about counter-attacks, things like that.
Jordan Henderson
You
Protection
Worrying
Focusing
About
Something
Attacking
Picking
Like
Disciplined
Pass
Making
May
Behind
Being
Happen
Again
Now
Liverpool
Things
Two
Careful
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
Jorja Fox
Day
Long
One Day
Shakespeare
Spontaneous
Pig
Because
Contracts
Very
May
Want
Next
Reason
Actor
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin
Impossible
Crime
Revolution
Crimes
Make
Without
Does
May
In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.
Jose Maria Aznar
Old
Other
Other Countries
Crises
Born
Uncertainties
Countries
New
Witnessing
Been
Revolts
May
Egypt
Dying
Tunisia
Which
Region
Full
Hence
Extend
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison
Man
Heart
Laughter
Believe
Other
Our
Distinguished
Mirth
Faculty
He
May
Capable
Naturally
Creatures
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.
Joseph Brodsky
Life
You
Property
Reality
Matter
Evil
Control
Way
Say
Daring
Physical
Direct
Contact
Bound
Come
Known
Course
How
Gothic
Least
Cautious
May
Mean
Social
Your
Choose
Novel
Palpable
Here
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler
Injustice
Made
About
Tempting
Purposes
Employed
Perjury
May
Deceiving
Vice
Serve
Tongue
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Joseph Butler
Natural
Degree
Every
Our
Easily
Possibly
Hath
Exceeded
Bound
Passions
Affections
May
Whereas
Which
Measure
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler
Nature
Man
Way
Strongest
Proper
Principle
Real
His
According
May
Happens
Which
Act
Inclination
Disproportionate
Present
Violate
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad
Back
Governments
Same
May
Nations
Them
Paid
Coin
The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military.
Joseph Dunford
Work
Google
Military
Benefit
Benefiting
Way
Characterization
Direct
More
Indirect
Indirectly
Doing
May
China
Chinese
Full
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph Epstein
Class
Style
Nation
Defeat
Society
Section
Over
Come
Call
Replaced
Upper
Upper-Class
May
Decisive
Newspapers
Page
Used
Moment
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
Envy
Seven
Say
Recompense
Insidious
Perhaps
Most
Deadly
Sins
May
Should
I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven't tended to work so well.
Joseph Fiennes
Work
Best
Films
Too
Worn
Visible
Those
Seem
Most
Well
Tights
Been
Lot
May
Just
Worked
Jeans
Actually
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe
Smile
Matters
Illustrations
Melancholy
May
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
Alone
Better
Giving
Country
Energy
Believe
Increasing
Our
Worse
Ourselves
Finding
Part
Prospect
Employment
Unemployed
May
Cannot
Which
Flatter
Capital
Produce
Skill
Exports
Population
Now
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.
Joseph Jacobs
Strange
Walls
Every
Air
Once
City
Born
Open
Stepped
Bounds
Beyond
Knows
Equally
None
Least
May
Wondrous
Happen
Place
Which
Land
Forth
But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
Joseph Jarman
Art
Faith
You
Experience
Wonderful
Important
Back
Ensemble
Say
Follow
Step
Contact
Leap
Also
Leap Of Faith
Make
Sort
Question
Very
Wonderful Experience
Going
May
Your
Keep
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster
Education
Prevail
Generation
Welfare
Master
Enormous
Statement
Parent
Rising
Bear
Proportion
Facts
Blanks
Longer
Lottery
Friends
Prizes
May
Children
Which
Plain
Number
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
Joseph McCabe
Arise
Idea
Maintained
Institution
Quite
May
Different
Reason
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
Joseph Rotblat
Life
Time
Science
Research
Society
Incumbent
Destiny
Results
Powerful
Scientific
Hinge
Scientific Research
Scientists
Accordingly
Conduct
Role
May
Mankind
Themselves
Fully
Whole
Conscious
Plays
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