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As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.
Mark Takano
Me
Gay
Minority
Awareness
Some
About
Someone
Given
Both
Facing
Simply
Openly
Talk
Vulnerability
How
Am
American
May
Often
Being
Double
Ethnic
Who
I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.
Marlo Thomas
Life
Dreams
Champion
Sometimes
Matter
Important
Lose
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Our
Punches
Our Dreams
Way
Sight
Circumstances
Kids
Dream
Temporarily
Pursuing
Throw
Never
Put
Most
Most Important Thing
Force
Always
Important Thing
Been
May
The Most Important
Hold
Us
Thing
Mentorship is important for everybody, but it can come in a variety of forms. It can come from your boss or another colleague who may be more of a peer, or someone who reports into you if they have a lot of experience or creative experience.
Marne Levine
You
Creative
Experience
Important
Everybody
Peer
Colleague
Someone
Boss
More
Variety
Come
Another
Lot
Reports
May
Forms
Your
Who
During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
Marquis de Lafayette
Happiness
Example
Revolution
Congress
Lesson
Thinking
France
Completed
Everywhere
Would
Seeing
Except
French
Voyage
Said
Occur
Oppressed
Oppressors
America
May
Published
Serve
Enjoyed
Last
Speech
Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Marquis de Lafayette
Life
Liberty
Welfare
Burden
Country
Ambition
Believe
Danger
Recompense
Shall
Remains
Step
Advantage
Calculate
Hour
Return
Accept
Private
Arriving
Provided
Private Life
Done
May
Tranquillity
Refuse
Public
Now
Zero
People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.
Marsha Blackburn
Future
People
Our
Has-Been
Put
Head
Concerned
Because
Pillow
Been
Cease
Very
America
May
Children
Grandchildren
Really
Night
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan
Schizophrenia
May
Literacy
Necessary
Consequence
My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.
Martin Bouygues
More
Generations
Am
Question
Than
Modern
May
Successor
Need
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
Martin Feldstein
Future
Become
Year
Increase
More
Primary
Economy
Dollar
Expansion
Current
May
Sustain
Wanting
Pace
Reason
Exports
Near
Competitive
Need
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.
Martin Feldstein
Will
Year
Increase
Months
Response
Delays
More
Demand
Does
Coming
Imports
Dollar
Source
May
Happen
Mean
Decline
Aggregate
Exports
Even
Competitive
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
Martin Freeman
Myself
Say
Would
Like
Beautifully
Sherlock
Done
May
Show
Even
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart.
Martin Jacques
You
Three
Worlds
Perceptions
Between
Terms
Practical
Ford
May
Difference
Apart
Little
Then
Who
Series
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
Martin Jacques
Enormous
Significance
Purchasing
Cost
Small
Been
May
Land
Rover
Wider
Symbolic
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
Martin McDonagh
Attitude
Try
First
Everything
Bit
Though
Per
About
Seem
Write
Never
Like
Always
May
Story
Place
Last
I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.
Martin McGuinness
Myself
Disagree
Others
Would
Only
Catholic
Opinion
Practising
May
Describe
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
Martin Parr
Photographers
Taboo
About
Fact
Never
Talk
Well
Greatest
Subject
May
Want
Decline
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.
Martin Rees
Science
Will
Design
Our
Minds
Further
Machine
Take
Open
Wrong
Remind
Steps
Over
Concepts
Instrument
Science Fiction
Always
Making
Least
Itself
Fringe
American
May
Fiction
Us
Should
Keep
Ever
Humans
Last
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
Martin Rees
Time
Space
Rich
Our
Scale
Intricate
Horizon
Structure
Observations
Ecosystem
Than
May
Space And Time
Far
Larger
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
Martin Scorsese
People
Try
Care
Thought
Think
Despicable
Circumstances
Ourselves
Possible
Characters
See
Some
About
Could
Had
Part
True
Over
Like
Years
Very
May
Maybe
Movies
Them
Capable
Us
Certain
Who
Why
Acts
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
Martin Seligman
Good
Reality
People
Control
Think
Others
Benign
Out
Find
Some
About
More
Scientific
Still
Optimism
Very
Optimistic
Handle
Than
May
Jury
Realism
Interesting
Themselves
Skill
Found
Illusions
Dispute
Actually
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
Martin Seligman
God
Religion
Knowledge
History
Righteousness
Ethics
Long
Omnipotence
Our
Long Process
Lifetime
Lifetimes
End
Going
May
Human
Happen
Process
Human History
View
Even
Species
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
Martin Sheen
Heart
World
Human Heart
Military
Universe
Despair
States
Running
Never
He
Because
George
George Bush
May
Human
Bush
Even
United
United States
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
Martin Van Creveld
War
Fight
People
Solely
Objective
Fact
Take
Simply
True
Obtain
Another
Opposite
Nor
End
Up
Very
Precisely
May
Often
In Fact
Order
Means
Necessarily
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Martin Yan
Positive
People
Better
Try
Some People
Society
Back
Our
Resources
Some
Give
Something
Never
Most
Contribute
May
Anything
Us
Even
Drain
God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
War
God
Time
Men
Consequences
Punishment
Bear
Clearly
How
Israel
Permits
Time And Time
Sins
May
Children
Order
Story
Again
Shown
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Mary Astell
Happy
Ought
Our
Possibly
Perfecting
Endeavour
May
Much
Beings
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