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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
Business
Responsibility
Profit
Corporation
Individual
Individual Responsibility
Device
Obtaining
Without
Ingenious
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
Strength
Difficulty
Ease
Risk
Potential
Directly
Investment
New
Economy
Obtaining
Ventures
Affects
Mobility
Tax
Experienced
Gains
Decisions
Capital
Capital Gains
Thereby
Growth
Flow
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Alfred Marshall
Finance
Wealth
Further
Part
Obtaining
Devoted
Which
Capital
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Behan
You
Everything
Guts
Something
Obtaining
Greatly
Stake
Desire
I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.
Megan Fox
Power
Own
Else
Someone
My Own
Obtaining
Need
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
Adam Savage
Life
Myself
My Life
Appreciating
Tell
Has-Been
About
Objects
Diving
Like
Also
Obtaining
Said
Making
Been
Being
Stories
Again
Them
Fascinated
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
Al Sharpton
Time
Good
School
College
Jobs
High
High School
Higher
Attending
Instead
Leads
Obtaining
Unemployment
Fewer
Graduating
Creates
Incarceration
Paying
Chances
Preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of the most important objectives of our national security policy, and I strongly advocated for and supported the economic sanctions that brought Iran to the negotiating table.
Amy Klobuchar
Important
National
Our
Negotiating
Security
Weapon
Table
Brought
Objectives
Strongly
Preventing
Economic
Supported
Most
Obtaining
Policy
Iran
National Security
The Most Important
Sanctions
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Armstrong Williams
World
Destruction
Seriously
Long
States
Broader
Liberation
Range
Security
Weapons
Threat
Part
Mass
Mass Destruction
Obtaining
Greatest
Iraq
Greatest Threat
Rogue
Effort
Confront
Capable
The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
Bill Flores
Stricter
License
Similar
ID
Concealed
Obtain
Obtaining
Times
Than
Often
Requirements
Standard
Card
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Law
Reward
Circumstance
Though
Out
Ability
Strongest
Seems
Fail
Talent
Attraction
Obtaining
Coupled
Exertion
Hold
Cannot
Patronage
Which
England
Profession
Even
I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.
Chellie Pingree
Government
Day
Phone
Thought
First
See
Something
More
Could
Mail
Never
Like
Obtaining
Read
Court
Without
Sounds
Private
Soviet
Listen
Soviet Union
Happened
Conversations
Warrant
Union
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
David Liss
Learning
People
Satan
Past
Books
Ways
Classic
Magic
Both
Could
Through
Generally
Powerful
Witch
Obtaining
Another
Get
Craft
In The Past
Either
Acquire
Mojo
Whom
Believed
Two
The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
David Ricardo
Time
Food
Increases
Beneficial
Ways
Facility
Obtaining
Same
Owners
Commodities
Same Time
Capital
Amount
Profits
Raises
Two
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Donna Rice
Difficult
Too
Guild
Television
Since
New
Obtaining
Miami
Commercial
Get
York
Moved
New York
Screen
Successful
Actor
Actress
Card
Started
Career
Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
Elton Gallegly
People
Criminals
States
Easily
Immigrants
Determine
Only
Fact
Attempt
Also
Obtaining
Make
Terrorists
Forged
Person
Offices
Legally
In Fact
Whether
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigrants
United
United States
Card
Cards
Need
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
Gabrielle Giffords
Will
Gun
Background
Criminals
Dangerously
Purchases
Weapons
Prevent
Mentally
Powerful
Checks
Obtaining
Expanding
Uniform
Create
Standard
Help
Ill
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.
George Edward Woodberry
Nature
Me
Man
Soul
World
Open
Obtaining
Does
Permanent
Material
Material World
Question
Order
Appear
Universal
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
Jim Garrison
Conviction
Defense
Side
State
More
Tend
Individual
Attorney
Obtaining
Client
Always
Opposed
Than
Much
Interests
Satisfaction
Ever
Received
Sympathies
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
John Muir
Good
Extra
Birds
Plum
Seeds
Cost
Wings
Thus
Obtaining
Cherry
Hiring
Effected
Board
Plan
Use
Pair
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
John Roberts
Health
Financial
Care
Pay
Penalty
Characterized
Individuals
Obtaining
Health Insurance
Insurance
Affordable
May
Tax
Certain
Requirement
Act
Reasonably
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
Joseph Lancaster
Education
Pay
Every
Difficulty
Complaint
Bad
Through
Generally
Almost
Obtaining
Department
I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.
Kelly Ayotte
Rights
Will
Gun
Believe
Criminal
Law-Abiding
Restricting
Prevent
Individual
Firearms
Obtaining
Commit
Owners
Deranged
Violence
Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.
Kevin Mitnick
People
Organization
Innocent
Starts
Everyday
Penetrating
Bad
Security
See
Some
Bad Guy
Restricted
Seems
Guy
Most
Piece
Obtaining
Protected
Item
Any
Often
Information
Should
Unimportant
Reason
Company
Why
If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance.
Letitia Baldrige
Time
You
Remember
Cause
Wait
Important
Before
Jet
Corporate
Guest
Minutes
Someone
Clearance
New
Hour
Most
Obtaining
Most Important Thing
Another
Important Thing
Line
Up
Departure
May
Just
The Most Important
Hold
Plane
Much
Thing
Early
Two
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
Octavia Spencer
Time
Gay
Rights
Women
Black
Young
Think
All Americans
Civil
Civil Rights
About
Brown
Purple
Fact
Obtaining
Women Are
Very
Green
American
Whether
Straight
Extend
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