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At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
Jack Thorne
Hope
Family
Class
Army
School
Way
Kids
Members
Find
Born
Seeking
More
Generally
Cruise
Vulnerable
Always
Were
July
Offend
Them
Tom
Tom Cruise
Fourth
Enlisted
Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.
Jacob Weisberg
Win
Political
Burden
Own
Sense
Congress
Machines
Members
Computational
Beasts
Re-Election
Than
Accumulate
Interests
Less
Acute
Designed
Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.
Jake Tapper
Needs
Women
Men
Men And Women
Own
Members
Unaccountable
Run
Posts
Rise
Know
Traditional
According
Essentially
Staff
Whims
Elected
Special
Who
Even
Washington
Elites
Appointed
We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.
Jake Tapper
Crazy
Say
Members
True
Know
House
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Senate
Just
Republicans
Who
Things
Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.
James Douglas
People
Congress
Think
President
Members
Constituents
Hurting
Well
Because
Governors
American
Same
American People
Who
Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
James E. Faust
Life
Death
Church
Will
Responsibility
Believe
Our
Members
Kindred
Dead
Just
Hobby
After
Searching
Fundamental
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
James Earl Jones
Family
College
Uncle
First
Our
Randy
Members
Entire
Go
Were
Youngest
Ever
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship
Time
Respect
Opportunity
Will
United Nations
Honorable
Members
Worthy
Give
Take
Nations
Place
Them
Themselves
Show
United
Among
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
James K. Polk
Government
Great
Passion
Own
Congress
Members
Seek
Absolutely
Votes
Operations
Greatly
Very
Office
Offices
Them
Themselves
Then
Create
Fill
Among
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
James L. Buckley
Service
Nature
Vote
Better
Impossible
Whatever
Congress
Bend
Once
Members
Angels
Temptation
Make
Becomes
Yield
May
Legislative
Reason
Career
It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.
James Lankford
Family
Law
Difficult
Consequences
Members
Out
More
Wrong
Know
Go
Very
Get
Family Members
Any
Ice
Agents
Enforce
Should
Means
Engaged
Why
Right
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
James Payn
Me
Poet
Important
Relation
Philosopher
Considered
Members
Struck
Never
Know
Another
Been
Often
Either
Social
Far
Body
Sufficiently
Treated
Two
Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.
Jan Schakowsky
Service
Best
Day
Great
Family
Women
Made
Men
Men And Women
Sacrifice
Country
Heroism
Our
Honored
States
Members
Memorial
About
Remembered
Knew
Fellow
Because
Ultimate
Ultimate Sacrifice
Friends
Celebrated
Celebrating
Them
Us
Paid
Who
Including
United
Lives
United States
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Time
Congress
Once
Members
Horses
Demand
Call
Passage
Wake-Up Call
End
America
American
Send
Legislation
Wholesale
Compassionate
Slaughter
Our differences are what make us great. Let us think about how we can extend this appreciation to people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other members of the community.
Janet Mock
Great
Appreciation
People
Differences
Community
Think
Other
Our
Members
Immigrants
About
Color
Make
How
Undocumented
Us
Let Us
Extend
Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.
Jared Polis
Rights
Welcome
Community
State
Members
Feel
Know
Protected
Regardless
Should
Reside
I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.
Jared Polis
Congress
Members
Given
Support
Soon
Go
Offering
Option
Intend
Public
Chance
Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.
Jared Polis
Congress
Negotiating
Members
Wearing
Scaring
Masks
Votes
Exercise
Deals
Up
Oftentimes
Among
The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.
Jared Polis
Understanding
Enough
Members
Individual
Deliver
Bottom
Votes
House
Pass
Lines
Role
Bill
Speaker
Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.
Jason Fried
Work
Employees
Our
Considered
Members
Would
Would-Be
Allowing
Footing
Most
Unusual
Fresh
Hobbies
Staff
Fruits
Anywhere
Bill
Paying
Team
Companies
Many
Even
Homes
Things
And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
Jay Carney
Remember
Important
Ensure
Members
Jobs
Responsible
Both
Both Parties
Economy
Parties
Making
Making Decisions
Decisions
Elected
Created
Choices
Certainly
Washington
Grows
In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.
Jay Samit
Learning
Valuable
Made
Employees
Startups
Markets
Members
Emerging
Life-Long
Take
Recruit
Protect
Also
Committed
May
Being
Order
Against
Next
Skills
Next Level
Your
Team
Company
Level
Compete
Disrupted
Need
Needed
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
War
World
National
Community
Those
Members
Total
Total War
Longer
Involve
Well
Another
Because
Waged
National Community
May
Against
Whole
I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
Jeb Hensarling
Conservative
Economics
Top
Members
Most
House
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.
Jeb Hensarling
Pay
Congress
Members
Struggling
Mortgages
Know
Deals
American
Order
Whether
Sweetheart
Right
Receive
Millions
Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
Jeff Landry
Vote
Conservative
Sometimes
Try
Pressure
Made
Promises
Conservatives
Tremendous
Back
Extreme
Ways
Those
Members
Inside
Districts
Constituents
About
Catch
Exert
Opposite
Get
Flak
Them
Groups
Beliefs
Fundamental
Core
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