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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
David Novak
Man
Guidance
Community
Synagogue
Moral
General
More
His
Preacher
Offer
Often
Rabbi
Regular
Theological
Sermons
Whose
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
David Rakoff
Love
Me
Animal
Faulty
Moral
Logic
Component
Purer
Somehow
Adore
Blind
False
Behind
Form
Capacity
Creature
Believes
There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
David Souter
Death
Time
Stronger
Physician
Judgment
Own
State
Claim
Recognition
Moral
Imminent
Impending
Implied
Than
Legitimacy
Procedures
Moment
Medical
Necessarily
Assistance
Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
David Zabel
Challenges
Dilemmas
Characters
Moral
Contemporary
Audiences
Interested
Ethical
Navigate
Watching
A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.
Dean Jones
Funny
Family
Films
Other
Intriguing
Moral
Adult
Particular
Principles
Very
Intelligent
Any
Form
Explicit
Should
Include
Film
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Time
Justice
Mistake
World
Law
Our
Independent
Weakened
Has-Been
Moral
Administration
Objective
Someone
Above
Make
Make No Mistake
Been
Eric
Department
Holder
Justice Department
Placed
Bush
Bush Administration
Stamp
Standing
Who
Now
Need
Rubber
Rubber Stamp
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
Dennis Banks
Legal
People
Moral
Still
American
Native
Realized
Standing
Here
I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.
Derek Blasberg
Fashion
Guest
Dilemma
Moral
Some
Sort
Coming
Show
Fashion Show
Event
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
Derek Blasberg
Life
People
Decency
Manners
Other
Honorable
Ways
Moral
City
Crowd
Joined
Sort
Lot
Up
Common
Moved
Grew
Midwest
Who
Code
Aware
Fast
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu
Education
Best
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Every
Our
Possible
Moral
Give
Very
Child
My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.
Diana Gabaldon
Good
Me
Book
Joy
Husband
Mysteries
Once
Moral
Part
Read
Intellectual
Any
Just
Stakes
Asked
Good Book
Many
Why
When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God
Consequences
Moral
Spirit
Study
Truly
Accordingly
Children
Ponder
Eternal
Agency
Realize
Should
Act
Therefore
The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full transparency in inquests. Governments also have a moral obligation to ensure proper care for the injured and their families.
Dominic Raab
Government
Obligation
Care
Moral Obligation
Soldiers
Ensure
Unnecessary
Moral
Vital
Proper
Risk
Retain
Puts
Also
Governments
Accountable
Families
Which
Held
Should
Full
Transparency
Injured
Why
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
Donna Leon
State
Moral
Law-Abiding
Tend
Most
Also
Italians
Than
Suspicion
Agencies
Less
Profound
The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
Dorothea Dix
Great
Our
Moral
Mental
Individuals
Instructor
Educators
Times
Communities
Enlightened
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Man
World
Think
Moral
Bruce
Make
Audiences
Very
Improve
Trying
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Douglas Haig
Struggle
Long
Inevitable
Opposing
Approximately
Moral
Outset
Long Struggle
Equal
Supremacy
Forces
Turn
Numbers
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
Douglas Haig
Good
Battle
Become
Lost
Once
Possessed
Moral
Mass
Infantry
Low
Defending
I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.
Drew Daywalt
Try
Smell
Sit
Down
Kids
Run
Moral
Never
Because
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
E. L. Doctorow
Angry
Me
Suffering
People
Situation
Moral
Seemed
Fellow
Well
Make
Him
Always
Truer
Duress
Endowment
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
Life
Fall
Real Life
Meet
Characters
Possibly
Bad
Moral
Exacting
Bad Habit
About
Habit
Could
No-One
Know
Readers
Real
Overly
Often
Being
Fictional
Flaws
Standards
Beings
Novels
Apply
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
Edmund White
Made
Conservatism
Mark
Anarchic
Moral
Paris
Never
True
Know
Equal
Accent
Parts
Foreigners
Up
Quite
Where
Experimentation
Place
Social
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
Genius
Will
Moral
Insight
Real
Motor
Any
Which
Engine
Start
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber
Struggle
Woman
Moral
Both
Exciting
Look
Also
She
Looks
Quite
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Edward Heath
Attitude
Moral
Abhorrence
Policy
Apartheid
Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.
Ehud Barak
Out
High
Moral
High Ground
More
Also
Israel
Israelis
Effective
Just
Might
Much
Convinced
Acting
Ground
Right
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