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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
Business
School
Organization
Nation
National
Late
Back
Corporations
Security
Least
Understood
Private
Ultimately
Spy
National Security
Sixties
While
Agency
Worked
Business School
Initially
Largest
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
John Perry Barlow
Government
Legal
Made
First
Awareness
Changes
Project
Possible
Total
Databases
Mostly
First Place
Sort
Because
Access
Diabolical
Limits
Private
Were
Truly
Off
Commercial
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Place
Which
Act
Now
Consequence
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.
John Redwood
Government
Home
Down
Living
Spending
Sector
Collect
Brought
Abroad
More
Both
Consume
Private
Private Sector
Sell
Get
Closer
Just
Public
Taxes
Less
Standards
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
John Sentamu
Family
Marriage
Better
Made
Believe
Society
Would
Kinship
Simply
Individuals
Between
Implications
Private
Contract
Wider
Two
Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
John Sergeant Wise
Differences
Brother
Had
Himself
None
Private
Personal
I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.
John Stockton
Life
Family
Me
Important
Think
Preserved
Most
Still
Private
Private Life
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
John Stossel
Government
Better
Will
Monopoly
Take
Private
Groups
Away
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
John Twelve Hawks
Thoughts
Free
Never
Without
Private
Truly
Actions
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
John Updike
Space
Virtually
City
General
Only
Habitable
Maintained
New
Disaster
Within
Private
York
New York
Spaces
Public
Truth is, I prefer to think that I have joined the 'Globe,' not purchased it, because great institutions, public and private, have stewards, not owners.
John W. Henry
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Think
Purchased
Joined
Institutions
Globe
Stewards
Because
Private
Owners
Public
Prefer
Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
John Walsh
Day
Hell
Numerous
Our
Diverse
Given
Absent
Isolated
Private
Any
Children
Incident
Reasons
Homes
Adam
Number
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
John le Carre
Language
Fly
Master
Pupils
Must
Be Prepared
Diverse
Principally
How
Private
German
Salvador
Salvador Dali
Manage
Any
Taught
Anything
Literature
Ask
Teach
Paintings
Prepared
Dali
Early
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre
Good
Sense
Live
Think
Immediately
Writers
Tension
Without
Got
Private
Private Lives
Very
Manage
Available
Them
Then
Manufacture
Who
Many
Lives
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham
Great
Reality
Comforting
Wonderful
Complicated
Caricatures
Corporations
Sector
Would
Would-Be
More
Fail
Terrible
Always
Private
Were
Governments
Private Sector
Than
Public
Public Sector
Alas
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
Jon Meacham
Government
Best
History
Wish
Looking
Looking Back
Other
Back
Sphere
Sector
Out
Tells
Would
Entire
Entrepreneurial
Attentive
Edit
Does
Private
Private Sector
America
Expense
Energetic
Either
Us
Really
Engaged
Who
Among
I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.
Jon Oringer
Me
Business
Experience
Space
Insight
Could
Firm
New
Equity
Private
Office
Department
Wanted
Which
Board
Public
Public Company
Help
Helped
Company
Grow
Chose
Needed
The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.
Jon Stewart
Best
Man
Vote
Internet
Will
Seven
Determined
Over
Come
Stern
Look
Parts
Private
Years
Private Parts
Represent
Achievements
Last
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.
Jonathan Dee
Book
Will
Sorry
Book Tour
Ourselves
Easy
Writers
Tour
Sharing
Feel
Like
Terrible
Private
Often
Situations
Stories
Which
Social
Themselves
'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.
Jonathan Raban
Dreams
Time
Political
Father
Mind
Obama
About
More
Leaders
Feels
Like
Perhaps
Until
Dead
Known
Reader
Audience
Reveals
Real
Private
His
Political Leaders
Than
Real Time
After
Sentence
Working
Shows
It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.
Jorja Fox
Great
Relationships
Press
Out
Private
Your
Play
The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison
Post
Honour
Station
Private
I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the president or try to influence the outcome.
Joseph Dunford
Trust
Try
Somebody
Important
Advice
Military
Think
President
Outcome
Criticize
Him
Private
Provide
Very
Office
Influence
Then
Used
Whoever
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
Joseph Stiglitz
Good
Me
Made
Resource
Market
Unlikely
Respects
Recognized
Would
Insight
Clear
Like
Private
Provide
Efficient
Whenever
Information
Public
Public Good
Many
Many Respects
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
Josh Hawley
Government
Religion
Constitution
People
Never
Merely
Another
Opinion
Private
Order
Themselves
Keep
Treated
I want to know what kind of personal, private, confidential information that Google collects from its users.
Josh Hawley
Google
Kind
Know
Private
Personal
Confidential
Want
Information
Users
I'm a private kind of person.
Josh Holloway
Kind
Private
Person
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