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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
John Marshall
Nature
Rights
People
Law
Considered
Those
Must
Only
Absolute
Divest
Powers
Within
Repeal
Contract
Vested
Conferred
Cannot
Them
Agents
Act
Acts
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes
Power
National
Excessive
Part
Ideas
Powers
Greater
Errors
Than
May
Autocracy
Convention
Either
Bursting
Played
Disruptive
Bonds
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
John R. Allen
Great
Angry
You
Crisis
Know
Powers
Make
Get
Decisions
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
Finance
Money
Political
System
Unable
Constant
Paralyzed
Pursuit
Simply
Powers
Campaigns
Political System
Function
I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.
John Roos
People
Underestimate
Powers
Japanese
Japanese People
Competitive
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.
John Tyler
People
Responsibility
Seen
Solemn
Those
High
Charged
Powers
Executive
Been
Fit
Chief
Chief Executive
Confide
Clothed
Which
Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.
John W. Henry
Library
World
Car
First
Cities
Exactly
Boston
Both
Economic
Had
Powers
South
Decades
Lending
Public
Public Library
Miles
Liverpool
Medical
Largest
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell
Art
Language
Illustration
Resources
Adequately
Must
Features
Attempting
Fail
Combined
Beyond
Powers
Nor
Itself
Wonders
Cannot
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Taxed
Graphic
Portray
Symbols
Speech
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
Jonathan Turley
People
Liberty
Power
Separation
About
Seem
Individual
Individual Liberty
Concentration
Protect
Powers
Understand
Branches
Us
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti
Man
Duty
Living
State
Must
Wing
Brute
He
Powers
Leave
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Jose Saramago
Change
Political
Society
Enough
System
Would
Democratic
Powers
Effect
Moment
Whole
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
Joseph Rotblat
War
Big
Year
Cold
Cold War
About
Main
Since
Powers
Make
Reductions
Arsenal
End
Begun
Them
Dismantling
Each
Nuclear
Nuclear Warheads
Two
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat
War
Mind
Action
Thinking
Cold
Cold War
Abandon
Weapons
Threat
Above
Bear
Take
Towards
Long-Term
Look
Period
Powers
Fresh
Fresh Look
Begin
Them
Ask
Appeal
Nuclear
Humankind
Elimination
Nuclear Weapons
Pose
I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.
Juan Guaido
National
Assume
President
Powers
Executive
Swear
Acting
To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.
Jules Verne
Man
Change
Universe
Earth
System
Given
Beyond
Powers
Conditions
Established
Movement
Order
Mankind
Modify
Creator
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
Julian Baggini
People
Own
State
Our
Neglecting
Habit
Protect
Powers
Discernment
Intellectual
Expect
Get
Them
Should
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.
Justin Cartwright
You
Business
Book
Brilliant
Reading
Chaotic
Post-War
Shallow
Winston
Until
Powers
Advertising
Occasionally
Self-Serving
Covers
Ultimately
Impression
Get
Story
Which
Persuasion
Present
British
Usually superheroes with all their powers and action-driven narratives are supposed to appeal to boys and men more than women; and as an extension of that, it is a given that the creators of these characters are primarily men.
Kanika Dhillon
Women
Men
Characters
Superheroes
Given
More
Primarily
Supposed
Powers
Boy
Narratives
Than
Appeal
Creators
Extension
People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
Katharine Viner
Together
People
Long
Control
Community
Other
Share
Part
Powers
Influence
Experiences
Help
Each
Lives
You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
Kathleen Hanna
Work
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Better
Sit
Every
Magic
Like
Powers
Get
Anything
Eventually
I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.
Kathleen Hanna
You
Girl
Band
Bass
Say
Out
Tell
Neither
Carry
Magic
Picks
Talent
Powers
Well
Always
Up
Any
Want
Anyone
Tune
Mean
Figure
Who
Start
Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them, and they don't give you a sugar rush. They feed your cells as needed, and as a result, you have loads of stable energy that powers you through the day.
Kathy Freston
Day
You
Result
Fiber
Energy
Sugar
Release
Rush
Slowly
Give
Beans
Foods
Through
Feed
Like
Powers
Because
Very
Cells
Stable
Grains
Them
Your
Whole
Whole Foods
Loads
Needed
The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Me
Gift
Husband
First
Before
Gave
Pretty
Marvel
Powers
Well
Sure
Either
Pack
Us
Worked
Ever
Second
Cards
I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements.
Kersti Kaljulaid
War
Freedom
Gratitude
Women
Pressure
Independence
Men
Our
Those
Must
Both
Know
Powers
Identity
Proud
Foreign
Foreign Powers
Women And Men
Nations
Achievements
Means
Your
Who
Even
Keep
Recall
Jewish
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
Kevin Kwan
Time
Me
Age
Strict
King
Drawn
Seems
Empire
Like
Period
Powers
Always
Were
Been
Edward
Edwardian
Decadence
Victorian
Height
England
Fascinating
Reign
British
British Empire
I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It's simply un-American.
Kevin de Leon
Government
You
Phones
Judge
Cell Phones
Believe
Extraordinary
Un-American
Citizens
Eavesdrop
Give
Federal
Federal Government
Federal Judge
Simply
Powers
Without
American
Cell
American Citizens
Cannot
Should
Warrant
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