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At City, it's our obligation to be fighting on all fronts for all trophies, and the Premier League is one of them.
Jesus Navas
Obligation
Fighting
Our
City
Trophies
League
Fronts
Them
Premier
Premier League
Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.
Jim Doyle
Day
Property
Every Day
Obligation
Unfair
Congress
Every
President
President Bush
Must
Stuck
Wisconsin
Another
Another Day
Stop
Refuse
Irresponsible
Bush
Taxpayers
Fulfill
Bill
Special
I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
Joaquin Phoenix
Life
Home
Obligation
Changes
Say
Record
Something
Take
Feel
Nominated
Affected
Get
Trying
Just
Straight
Them
Actor
Oscar
Set
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen
Education
Age
Obligation
Mother
Burden
Father
Our
Our Father
Kids
Kind
Religious
More
Observant
Driving
She
Were
Very
Us
Less
Jew
When active duty ends, we have an obligation to uphold our own pledge: a pledge to ensure that every veteran receives the care and benefits they deserve.
John Delaney
Obligation
Benefits
Veteran
Care
Own
Duty
Active
Every
Our
Pledge
Ensure
Uphold
Ends
Deserve
Receives
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
John L. Lewis
Life
Peace
Obligation
Degree
Employees
Our
Recognize
Employer
Industrial
Least
His
Existing
Forth
Set
You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.
John Lanchester
You
Obligation
Too
Debt
Explain
Novel
I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.
John Mackey
You
Obligation
Pay
Say
Ways
Would
Seeking
Fact
Owe
Legally
In Fact
Taxes
Ethical
Should
Your
Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.
John Paul Stevens
Work
War
Me
Obligation
Congress
Took
Sign
Oath
Correspondence
Would
Relieving
Some
Only
Joined
Never
Had
Involved
Cryptography
Sort
Course
Reveal
Passed
Years
Up
After
Navy
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
Good
Silence
Obligation
Speak
Word
Nothing
Our
Easy
Only
Costs
Which
Us
Requires
Ill
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
John Trumbull
Rights
Trust
Obligation
Lose
Nurse
Our
Though
Posterity
Bear
Tie
Were
Get
Done
Them
Us
Breed
Should
Lest
Necks
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.
John W. Snow
Obligation
Will
Build
Action
Think
System
Security
Put
Long-Term
Reduce
Reform
Sustainable
Which
Social
Social Security
Social Security Reform
Consensus
Basis
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.
John W. Snow
Obligation
Say
System
Security
Trillion
Some
Point
Come
Make
Up
Represents
Mean
Social
Whole
Social Security
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
Jonathan Turley
Life
You
Obligation
Law
Duty
Rule
Danger
Rules
Says
Responsible
Would
Cost
Someone
Risk
More
Were
Controversial
Common
Common Law
Placing
Little
Them
Rescue
Help
Even
Save
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
Josef Albers
Government
Obligation
Job
Our
Direct
Had
Stick
Got
Were
Years
Five
Seminary
Teaching
As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.
Josh Fox
You
Science
People
Obligation
Ride
Journalist
Satisfied
Voice
Through
Head
Know
Most
Verifiable
Sources
Done
Going
Skeptical
Your
Multiple
Streets
I just never in my life imagined not graduating college, so I feel like it's kind of my obligation to my parents, almost, to give them a degree in return for everything they've given me.
Josh Rosen
Life
Me
Obligation
Degree
College
My Life
Parents
Everything
Kind
Give
Given
Never
Almost
Feel
Like
Return
Just
Graduating
Them
Imagined
I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Reality
People
Obligation
World
Think
Our
Insightful
About
Atrocities
Investigating
Like
Most
Issues
Hand
Human
Human Beings
Boasting
Us
Create
Unimaginable
Should
Beings
Here
Filmmakers
I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.
Joss Whedon
Obligation
Dancing
Press
Out
Stay
Until
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
Joyce Banda
Injustice
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Met
Action
Every
Society
Omission
Ensure
Moral
Deliberate
Through
Democratic
Democratic Society
Tangible
Commission
Whether
Each
Acts
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
Jude Law
Myself
People
Obligation
Other
Guessing
Only
Keep
But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.
Judge Mills Lane
Obligation
Try
Believe
Think
Society
Direction
Head
Headed
Judges
Wants
Help
Right
Fundamentally
Right Direction
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.
Judith Butler
Democracy
Obligation
Diversity
Important
Say
Defines
Those
Dimensions
Ourselves
Betrays
Namely
Most
Becomes
Tradition
May
The Most Important
Different
Against
Ethical
Jewish
I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.
Julian Fellowes
Obligation
Better
Live
Think
Worse
Those
Kind
Better Off
Simplistic
Course
Dealt
Off
Impression
Frightened
America
Get
Mean
Dislike
Who
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
K. A. Applegate
Needs
Obligation
Care
Animals
Think
Well
Understand
Real
Them
Captivity
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Life
Death
Obligation
Will
Free
Seen
Way
Though
He
Also
Knows
Artificial
Form
Break
Even
Novelist
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