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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
Nature
Justice
Legal
Humanity
Law
Our
Namely
Equity
Governs
Nations
Which
Creator
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Life
Government
Good
Healthy
Birth
Conservatives
Liberals
Unable
Seem
Somehow
Namely
Powers
Government Agencies
Been
Endowed
Skepticism
Acquire
Agencies
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
George Soros
People
Free
First
Society
Possible
Charge
Unpatriotic
Open
Wrong
Open Society
Namely
Policies
Principle
Without
Opposed
Discussion
May
Currently
Forgotten
Being
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Scott Derrickson
Life
Nature
You
Selfish
Natural
Honesty
Intelligence
Grace
Vile
Dark
Sometimes
Human Nature
Our
Moral
See
Entropy
Clear
Namely
Look
Also
Force
Any
Human
Against
Works
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
Character
Disposition
Virtue
Virtuous
Statesman
Moral
Citizens
Moral Character
Performance
Namely
Most
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
His
Anxious
Produce
Certain
Actions
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B. R. Ambedkar
Difficult
Kind
Object
Vegetarianism
Namely
Anomaly
Call
Understand
Cow
Person
Quite
Which
Explanation
Should
Flesh
Who
Why
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life
Politics
Business
Political
Philosophical
Liberalism
Kind
Introduction
Objection
Highest
Instead
Namely
Ideas
Practical
Principles
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce
Woman
Power
Seeing
He
Invisible
Namely
Blockhead
Person
Patron
Which
Commonly
Who
Her
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
Benazir Bhutto
Life
Justice
Liberty
States
Totalitarian
Compromises
Namely
Democratic
Principles
Dictatorships
Regimes
United
Foundation
United States
Basic
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
Love
Tolerance
Dramatic
We Cannot
Something
Only
Civilization
Only Love
Fact
Emotional
Namely
Know
Affairs
Cannot
Public
Public Affairs
Personally
Much
Less
Rebuilding
Needed
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
Jared Diamond
Me
History
People
Differences
Seems
Between
Environments
Namely
Attributable
Continental
Continents
Human
Different
Pattern
Themselves
Among
Societies
Biological
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
Murray Gell-Mann
Physics
Word
Sense
Changes
Chaos
Indefinitely
System
Outcome
Rather
Writers
Particular
Namely
Course
Nonlinear
Condition
Lot
Often
Tiny
Sensitive
Means
Used
Initial
Phenomenon
Vague
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
Sam Sheppard
Censorship
Believe
Profit
Marketing
Only
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Namely
Get
Information
Theory
Media
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil
Justice
Crime
Society
Hideous
One Thing
More
Only
Only One Thing
Namely
Than
Modern
Repressive
Modern Society
Thing
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
Amiri Baraka
Great
You
People
Great Things
Thought
Stupid
Guess
Those
Stuff
Namely
Most
Involved
America
Get
Dwight
Wanted
Wanting
McCarthyism
Eisenhower
Things
My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
Amiri Baraka
Great
You
People
Great Things
Thought
Stupid
Those
Stuff
Namely
Involved
America
Get
Wanted
Wanting
McCarthyism
Eisenhower
Things
As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.
Angela Merkel
Time
Freedom
Law
Live
Consequences
Intervene
Ought
Saw
Citizens
Eastern
No-One
Namely
Protect
Although
Years
Wall
Child
Lack
Being
Order
International
Many
Whole
International Law
Believed
Stark
Violation
American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
Christopher Buckley
Better
Political
Will
Criteria
Rather
More
Variety
Tend
Over
Namely
Voters
Employ
Make
Scientific
Material
Provide
Years
American
Decisions
Us
Next
Who
Professional
Based
Four
As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?
Darell Hammond
School
Debate
Important
Nation
Back
Our
Summer
See
Between
Over
Namely
Most
Schools
Important Questions
How
Year-Round
Questions
The Most Important
Play
Vacation
Bring
Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.
David Einhorn
Needs
Challenges
Facebook
Experience
Could
Namely
Obvious
Without
Reducing
Traffic
Microsoft
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Help
User
Search
It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.
Edvard Moser
Learning
Memory
Difficult
Find
Neurological
Study
Namely
Particularly
Were
Behaviour
Quite
Wanted
Place
Which
Interested
Basis
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Edward Carpenter
Value
General
Fact
He
Taken
Advantage
Namely
Obvious
Does
Surplus
His
Get
Labours
Capitalist
Full
Workmen
Republicans' focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare - an unpopular entitlement program - rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and Medicare, has raised questions about their true objective. But critics forget that spending is fungible.
Edward Conard
Entitlement
Focus
Back
Spending
Scaling
Security
Obamacare
Critics
Unpopular
About
Objective
Rather
Generally
True
Namely
Questions
Than
Forget
Republicans
Social
Social Security
Medicare
Raised
Program
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
Ehud Barak
War
Battle
World
Problems
Negotiating
Solved
Table
Arena
Between
Since
Namely
Around
Real
Israel
Procedure
Regard
Which
Us
Should
Whole
Believes
Right
Disputes
Palestinians
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Men
Beginning
Creation
Hell
Those
Born
Follows
Namely
Said
Been
Article
Deceased
Heaven
Human
Either
Which
Race
Who
Human Race
Shown
Ever
Things
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose
Nature
Man
Woman
Cause
Could
Main
Advantages
Namely
She
Pernicious
Falsehood
Inferior
Same
Done
Being
Against
Ever
Her
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