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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Today Word Relatively Only Countries Nominal Sovereign Sovereignty Any Often Meaning Really Used Specific Number

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling. Richard Dawkins

Words Say Worthwhile Able Something Relying Without Calmly His Yelling Anybody Sensible Convey Meaning Themselves Should Who

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed. Amanda Foreman

Good Family Obedience Son Women Wife Husband Ambition Extra Other Herself Diligence Must No Desire No Interest Chastity Never Good Wife Emphasis Beyond She Than Interest Placed Meaning Produce Should Serve Among Her Things Desire Widowed

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. Amy Adams

Good Me Relationship Earth Finally Put True Look Understand Being Meaning Pregnant Being Pregnant Body Helped Swimsuit

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. B. R. Ambedkar

Good Religion People Ethics Other Must Would Judged Well-Being Any Social Meaning Held Standard Standards Based Necessary

Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule. Biz Stone

Work Time Family Me Events Treat Try Top Way Properly Schedule Put Calendar Balancing Priority Blocked Off Sneak Precious Precious Time Any May Meaning Dedicated Specific Actually

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. Blaise Pascal

Words Arranged Effects Different Meaning Different Meaning Meanings Differently

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. Charles Henry Parkhurst

Life Gives Purpose Meaning

As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision. Charles Kennedy

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning. Deborah Tannen

Time Words Joke Our Everything Statement Say Tell Goodwill Annoyance Most Because Without Does How As Far As Anyone Meaning Far Notice Speaker Show Agree Serious Interpreted

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution. Dennis Prager

News Entertainment Constitution Law Increasingly Guided High High Schools More Taken Over Schools Judges Courts Left Leftist Than Decisions Meaning Many Elementary Media Universities

There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did. Feist

Change Mind Singing Subconscious Changed Later Kind Vantage Vantage Point Something Point Songs Stuff Wrote Because Line Hear Been Years Times Did Where Different Little Meaning Certain Planted Moment Sudden Chameleon Four Lizard

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. Fiona Shaw

Democracy Rights Word Duty Gone Only Remain Meaning

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

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. Frans de Waal

Patience Woman Animal Women Behavior Example Own Controlling Field Charge Dating Term New For Example Alpha Terms Also Female Opinions Meaning Acquired Used Who Flirting Originated

We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people. Hassan Rouhani

You People Law Free Country Believe Medicine Fact Free Trade Clear Development For The People Trade Quite Bank Human In Fact Human Development Sanction Sanctions Meaning Meaning Of Unilateral International International Law Actually Growth Violate

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. Henry Mintzberg

Science Experience Creativity Management Vision Practice Analysis Draws Insight Lot Craft Crafts Arts Meaning Certain Use Describe Technique Amount

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse

Faith History Chaos Retaining Study Study History Nevertheless Order Meaning Means

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency. Howard Schultz

People Sense Think Mediocrity Crisis Recognize Emergency Drifting Fact Towards Concern America Anymore Biggest Urgency Meaning Washington

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. Humphrey Lyttelton

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