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If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
Henry Kravis
You
Business
Experience
Build
Building
Moral
Both
Crumble
Well
Ethical
Then
Foundation
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Henry Louis Gates
You
Cause
Behavior
Black
Poverty
First
Revolution
White
Community
Teenager
Recognize
Moral
About
Structural
Both
Part
Look
First Thing
Within
Makes
Get
American
Behavioral
The First Thing
African
African-American
Pregnant
Thing
Need
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Henry Mayhew
Good
Old
Dinner
Fire
Enough
Our
Beside
Moral
Easy
Fine
Well
Hearts
After
Coal
Port
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
Henry Rollins
Strength
Great
Patience
Made
Year
Heights
Other
Those
Moral
Would
Tried
New
Make
Attributes
Altruism
Exert
Years
Lists
Shot
Show
Many
Resolutions
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
Henry Rollins
Down
Laughable
Moral
Gingrich
Nerve
Perceive
Mainstream
Look
Mountaintop
Any
Anyone
Republican
Newt
Newt Gingrich
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
Henry Wade
Law
Doubt
President
President Kennedy
Say
Says
Killer
Moral
Would
No Question
He
Beyond
Without
Question
Any
Which
Certainty
Reasonable
Kennedy
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
Herb Elliott
Spiritual
People
Benefits
Witness
Dedication
Lasting
Enough
Those
Moral
Athlete
Athletic
Only
Inspiration
Drives
Improve
Games
Lucky
Compete
Bring
Olympic
Olympic Games
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
Hjalmar Schacht
War
Peace
Memory
People
Minds
Moral
Wounds
Weighs
Because
Material
Than
Inflicted
So-Called
Deeper
Treaties
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Howard Dean
Angry
Anger
People
World
Leader
Lost
Our
Jobs
Moral
Well
Said
Candidate
Place
Right
Million
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
Howard Dean
World
Leader
Country
President
Moral
Until
Became
George
George Bush
Bush
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant
You
Will
Weather
Moral
Screwed
Britain
Filmmaking
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
Hugh Hefner
Good
Home
People
Good People
Pure
High
Moral
Folks
Kissing
Were
Very
Hugging
Repressed
Standards
Raised
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
Sad
Man
Natural
World
Beast
Society
Wild
Wild Beast
Wilderness
Everywhere
Moral
Would
Would-Be
Compound
Thy
Fallen
Sink
Thee
Fiend
Certainly
Lessons
Save
The most powerful moral influence is example.
Huston Smith
Example
Moral
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Influence
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
Art
Religion
Somewhere
Every
Society
Rules
Consists
Drawing
Moral
Morality
Laws
Both
Line
Essence
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
Ian Anthony Dale
Time
Hero
Otherwise
Guess
Types
Complex
Those
Characters
Moral
Moral Compass
Both
Generally
Towards
Most
Ultimately
Lot
Very
Get
Roles
Same
Being
Much
Richest
Separates
Fun
Villain
Compass
Gravitate
Two
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian Mcewan
God
Atheist
Sense
Believe
Our
Moral
Moral Sense
Really
Moment
Now
We've become the party that wants to appease everyone and no one. And I think the only way that the Democrats become viable again is if we have people who have moral clarity and courage to say what they need to say and fight for what they need to fight for.
Ilhan Omar
Fight
Courage
People
Party
Become
Think
Everyone
Way
Say
Moral
Clarity
Only
No-One
Democrats
Viable
Wants
Again
Who
Appease
Need
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz
Great
History
Moral
Point
Adventure
Arrived
His
Condition
Discovered
Cultural
Auschwitz
End
Human
Where
After
Human Condition
European
Traveler
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
Truth
Truth Is
Moral
Brown
Moralistic
Generic
Like
Well
Spectrum
The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.
Isaac Herzog
Good
Leadership
World
Strong
Bad
Moral
Clarity
Someone
Between
Knows
Yearning
Difference
Good And Bad
Who
While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
J. D. Vance
Faith
Character
Spiritual
Blame
People
Voting
Political
Behavior
Problems
Focus
Mirror
Looking
Matters
Christianity
Other
Character Development
Moral
Constantly
Gives
Both
Development
Excuse
Answers
Motivate
While
Should
Believers
Need
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
J. G. Ballard
People
Decision
Car
Will
Signs
Satisfied
Think
Moral
Fact
Colour
Consumerism
Most
Next
Choosing
Resent
Lives
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
Life
Word
Thought
Virtue
Our
Moral
Someone
Could
Writer
Days
Institutional
Conception
Well
Occupation
Sage
Still
His
Times
Offer
Prize
Authoritative
Literature
Who
Her
Belongs
Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.
Jacob Weisberg
God
People
Political
Debate
Creation
Run
Moral
Religious
About
Allowed
Faiths
Test
Political Debate
Office
Order
Public
Means
Public Office
Views
Applying
Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.
Jacob Weisberg
Desperate
Sense
Moral
Moral Sense
Alternative
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Any
Republicans
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