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My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
Charles Best
Life
Buy
Conversation
Matter
Own
Field
Our
Books
Paper
Pencils
Colleagues
Would
Trip
About
Pockets
Having
Students
Knew
Most
Read
Always
Go
Were
Subject
Subject Matter
Same
Just
Wanted
Us
Really
Teachers
Bring
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton
Home
Change
Men
Own
Minds
Those
Visit
See
Pockets
Only
New
Heads
Return
Return Home
Empty
Climate
Foreign
Same
Nations
Customs
Bodies
Who
Traveled
Associate
Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
Chris Chocola
Time
Best
People
Money
Achieve
Own
Way
Jobs
Best Way
Pockets
More
Learned
Again
Create
Keep
Growth
Hardworking
Music is split up now into little pockets.
Chris Martin
Music
Pockets
Split
Up
Little
Now
It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.
Damon Dash
Me
Matter
About
Pockets
Argue
Talk
Another
Dude
Hear
Incomprehensible
I wanted nothing more than to vote for a tax plan that would put more money in the pockets of overburdened taxpayers and spur job creation.
Dan Donovan
Vote
Money
Job
Nothing
Creation
Job Creation
Would
Pockets
More
Put
Spur
Than
Tax
Wanted
Plan
Taxpayers
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Dan Rather
You
Side
Wear
Case
Pockets
Had
He
Like
Up
Handgun
Frog
May
Maybe
Whether
Again
Paula
Turned
We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.
Donella Meadows
Business
Legal
Intimidate
Ability
Cost
Pockets
Laws
Voice
Individuals
New
Concerns
Doing
Expenses
Legitimate
Used
Organizations
Deep
Need
I want to put money back in people's pockets.
Doug Ford
People
Money
Back
Pockets
Put
Want
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Ed Markey
People
Money
Holding
Down
Pump
Out
Pockets
Shaking
Feel
Go
Tipping
Oil
Legs
Upside
Upside Down
Them
Really
Now
Gas
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Future
You
Memory
Possess
Pockets
Spaces
Which
Your
Fill
Imagining
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Elizabeth Bowen
Coins
Pockets
He
Putting
Got
His
Friend
Holes
Help
Helpful
People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.
George Matthew Adams
People
Half
Our
Pockets
Give
Both
Wisely
Combine
Well
However
According
Hearts
Want
Much
Means
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
Change
Money
Say
About
Pockets
Always
Same
After
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.
Gloria Reuben
Time
Water
Political
Our
Air
Corporations
Pockets
Poisoning
Lining
Contributions
Same
Officials
Same Time
While
Elected
Elected Officials
Not only in Africa but in much of the world, most leaders' pockets are lined by industrial business. And industrial business is never going to stop aiming at profit.
Hugh Masekela
Business
World
Profit
Aiming
Pockets
Only
Never
Leaders
Most
Industrial
Lined
Going
Stop
Africa
Much
I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
Jack Ma
People
Minds
Pockets
Shallow
Want
China
Deep
I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.
James Adomian
Country
Control
Sense
Address
Kind
Some
Pockets
Hostility
Over
Occasionally
South
Just
Room
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
James Surowiecki
Capitalism
Problem
Own
Ownership
Dilemma
Corporations
Those
Run
Would
Would-Be
Pockets
Only
Small
Perennial
Had
Instead
Toward
Became
Real
Occurs
Line
Been
Model
America
American
Managers
Owners
Essentially
Moved
Which
Stakes
Who
Companies
Professional
There is a wall that's built up that leads us to believe we can't move at work, but that's not the case. We need to find those pockets of time where we can take care of ourselves.
Jessie Pavelka
Work
Time
Care
Believe
Those
Ourselves
Find
Case
Pockets
Take
Take Care
Leads
Built
Up
Wall
Move
Where
Us
Need
Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.
Jill Ellis
Good
Little Things
Looking
Penetrate
Finding
Tempo
Pockets
Emphasized
Middle
Spaces
Little
Turning
Things
Playing
Third
I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.
John Lydon
Love
Me
Gratitude
Whatever
Living
Babies
Those
Launch
Pockets
More
Know
Been
Up
Get
Them
Should
Show
Helped
Careers
I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
Julian Casablancas
Become
Every
Think
Corner
Pretty
Pockets
Always
Were
Manhattan
Much
Now
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
Julie Plec
Life
Work
Time
Personal Life
Out
Carve
Pockets
Very
Personal
Little
Then
Hard
Present
Desire
We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
Kimora Lee Simmons
School
Year
Pay
Hundred
Several
Statistics
Pockets
Supplies
Materials
Go
Dollars
Heard
Normal
Times
Tune
Teachers
The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.
Lee Hsien Loong
Friendship
You
Build
Aid
President
Minister
Ministry
Pockets
Parliament
Prime
House
Policy
Around
Trade
Deals
Foreign
Go
Foreign Policy
Office
Chinese
Them
Extension
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